The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 86

Just look a little closer at him: he is your old friend, your own good old Caro.

Who acts: you, much · What happens: look, be · To what, where: old friend

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, much), 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 look	advmod
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 closer	obl:unmarked
5	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 look	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 closer	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 friend	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 friend	cop
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 friend	amod
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Caro	punct
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Caro	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Caro	amod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Caro	amod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Caro	amod
19	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 friend	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					close property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	much	your old friend					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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