The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 54

Little staff of apple-tree, Over the earth and over the sea, Up in the air be guide to me, Everywhere to wander free,

What happens: be, wander · To what, where: air guide, me

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 staff	amod
2	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 tree	case
4	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 apple	punct
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 staff	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 earth	punct
8	Over	over	ADP	_	10 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 staff	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sea	cc
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 earth	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guide	punct
16	Up	up	ADV	_	21 guide	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 air	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 guide	compound
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 guide	cop
21	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 staff	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 guide	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wander	punct
25	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 wander	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 wander	mark
27	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 staff	conj
28	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wander	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 staff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		air guide	me				tree rules
2	wander	to-infinitive						everywhere, free property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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