The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 123

You need not ask leave of their masters; and perhaps if they ever get home, they’ll look on poor people as if they were flesh and blood like themselves.’

Who acts: You, inches · What happens: not ask, get, look, be · To what, where: leave

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, inches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
2	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 ask	advmod
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 masters	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 masters	nmod:poss
8	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 look	cc
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	20 look	advmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 get	advmod
15	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 look	advcl
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 get	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 look	nsubj
19	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 look	aux
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 people	case
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 look	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	28 flesh	case
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 flesh	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 flesh	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flesh	cop
28	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 look	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 blood	cc
30	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flesh	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 themselves	case
32	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 look	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	present	You	leave of inches's masters			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient
2	get a condition, not said to happen	present	inches = inch		ever	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	look	future	inches = inch			on poor people; like inches = inch; perhaps property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on people=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	inches = inch			as flesh and blood	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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