The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 37

“Let me alone, old witch,” cried the young man; “I can do nothing for you,” and so saying he went on his way.

Who acts: you, woman, man · What happens: let, cry, do, say, go · To what, where: me, young man, nothing, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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, woman, man), 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	_	2 Let	punct
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	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Let	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 witch	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 witch	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 do	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 do	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saying	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 saying	advmod
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Let	conj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saying	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	me		old witch obl; alone property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	you not said here	the young man			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	can	woman	nothing		for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	past	man		man's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/37/