The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 70

Let me never see them again, but I have learned the lesson that they taught me.

Who acts: you, I, eyes · What happens: let, not see, learn, teach · To what, where: me, eyes, lesson

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. 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, eyes), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 learned	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 learned	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 learned	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 learned	aux
11	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 see	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lesson	det
13	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 learned	obj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 taught	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taught	nsubj
16	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 learned	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 taught	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	not see	present	you not said here	eyes = eye		again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	learn	present · perfect	I	the lesson			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
4	teach speech: other	past	eyes = eye		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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