The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 63

Oh, Maurice, Maurice, if there’s any love or nature left in you, come back to your own ould mother, who reared you like a decent Christian!’

Who acts: you, own ould mother · What happens: leave, come back, rear · To what, where: nature, you

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, own ould mother), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	18 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Oh	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Maurice	punct
5	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Maurice	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 ’s	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 ’s	expl
9	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	advcl
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 love	det
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ’s	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nature	cc
13	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 love	conj
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 nature	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 left	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 mother	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mother	amod
23	ould	ould	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mother	amod
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reared	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 reared	nsubj
27	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 mother	acl:relcl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 reared	obj
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 Christian	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Christian	det
31	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Christian	amod
32	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 reared	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		nature not said here	in you result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in you=Result
2	come back	imperative	you not said here		to your own ould mother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
3	rear	past	your own ould mother	you	like a decent Christian	vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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