The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 114
Do me the favor to be my guest as long as you remain in my capital.”
Who acts: you · What happens: do, be, remain · To what, where: favor, me, guest, capital
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 favor | det |
| 4 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 guest | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 guest | cop |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 guest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 favor | acl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Do | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 remain | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 remain | nsubj |
| 13 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 capital | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 capital | nmod:poss |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remain | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | the favor | me | long property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | you not said here | my guest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | you | my capital | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in capital=Location |
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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