The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 74

‘I am afraid, let me turn homewards.’

Who acts: I, me · What happens: be, let, turn · To what, where: me, homewards

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 (I, me), 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	_	4 afraid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	parataxis
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	homewards	homeward	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turn	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		afraid property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
3	turn	infinitive	me not said here	homewards		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=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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