The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 59

“Can you tell me the way then, and I will seek you--that I may surely be allowed to do!”

Who acts: you, mother · What happens: tell, seek, allow, do · To what, where: way, mother, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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 tell	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tell	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seek	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seek	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 seek	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 seek	aux
13	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 seek	obj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 allowed	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 allowed	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 allowed	nsubj:pass
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 allowed	aux
19	surely	surely	ADV	_	21 allowed	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 allowed	aux:pass
21	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 seek	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 do	mark
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 allowed	xcomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you	the way	mother	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic
2	seek in a quote	future	mother	you				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	allow in a quote	may · passive		mother			surely property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	mother not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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