The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 18
Just let me finish carving this cross.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, finish, carve · To what, where: me, cross
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | carving | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 finish | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cross | det |
| 7 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carving | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | finish | infinitive | me not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | carve | gerund | me not said here | this cross | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=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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