The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 43
‘Then let me alone,’ rejoined the dwarf, ‘and I promise you that in a very few months you shall be master of the farm and of Barbaik.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: let, rejoin, promise, be · To what, where: me, dwarf, you, master
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rejoined | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 8 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dwarf | det |
| 10 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rejoined | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwarf | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 promise | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 promise | nsubj |
| 15 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rejoined | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 promise | iobj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 master | mark |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 months | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 months | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 few | advmod |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 months | amod |
| 22 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 master | obl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 master | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 master | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 master | cop |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 promise | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 farm | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 farm | det |
| 29 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 master | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Barbaik | cc |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Barbaik | case |
| 32 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 farm | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rejoined | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 rejoined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | me | then | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | rejoin | past | the dwarf and ‘ | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | present | I | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a not said to happen | shall | you | master | month | of the farm and Barbaik | tree rules |
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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