The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 99

‘You can go and shoot instead, and I will just have this slave to stay with me!’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: go, shoot, have, stay · To what, where: slave

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shoot	cc
6	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 shoot	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 slave	det
15	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stay	mark
17	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 slave	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stay	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	can	You			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shoot	infinitive	You not said here		instead property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	future	I	this slave		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Patient
4	stay	to-infinitive	I not said here	this slave not said here	with me	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location

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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