The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 86
Just raise one corner so that I may peep.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: raise, peep · To what, where: one corner
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 raise | advmod |
| 2 | raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 corner | nummod |
| 4 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raise | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 peep | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | fixed |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 peep | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 peep | aux |
| 9 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 raise | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | imperative | you not said here | one corner | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peep | may | I | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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