The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 128
‘Allow me, my father, to go and give alms to the beggars.’
Who acts: you · What happens: allow, go, give · To what, where: me, alms, beggars
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Allow | punct |
| 2 | Allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Allow | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Allow | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Allow | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 beggars | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beggars | det |
| 15 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Allow | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | imperative | you not said here | me | my father vocative | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | alms | the beggars | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Theme to beggar=Recipient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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