The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 64
‘Open your earthen pot, and let me go in.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: open, let, go in · To what, where: earthen pot, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 2 | Open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pot | amod |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Open | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Open | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | your earthen pot | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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