The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 87
Therefore draw near and place thy hand on my shoulder and follow me wheresoever I go.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: draw, follow, go · To what, where: hand, shoulder, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 draw | advmod |
| 2 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADV | _ | 2 draw | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 place | cc |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 near | conj |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draw | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 shoulder | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draw | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 follow | cc |
| 12 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 draw | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 follow | obj |
| 14 | wheresoever | wheresoever | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 follow | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draw | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 draw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | imperative | you not said here | thy hand | my shoulder | near, therefore property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination | ||
| 2 | follow | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present | I | wheresoever property | 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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