The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 3
Tell me thy sorrow that I may bear it with thee, or, it may be, help thee!’
Who acts: you, sorrow, matter, thy · What happens: tell, bear, be, help, sorrow · To what, where: me, matter, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sorrow, matter, thy), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bear | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 bear | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bear | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | aux |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bear | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 thee | case |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 bear | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 be | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 be | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 or | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 be | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 17 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bear | may | thy sorrow | matter | with thee | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | be | may | matter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | infinitive | you not said here | thee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | sorrow | thy | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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