The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 14

Only let me go for two months, and I promise to come back to you and stay for the rest of my life.”

Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, go, promise, come back, stay · To what, where: me, you

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 months	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promise	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 promise	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 promise	nsubj
11	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 let	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promise	xcomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stay	cc
18	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 rest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stay	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 life	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 life	nmod:poss
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rest	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	me not said here			month		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	present	I					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come back not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
5	stay	infinitive	I not said here				for the rest of my life	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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