The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 181

‘Since you are going far away to-morrow, and I shall not see you again, let me comb your head for the last time, as a remembrance of you.’

Who acts: you, I, me · What happens: go, not see, let, comb, remember · To what, where: you, me, head

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, me), 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	_	5 going	punct
2	Since	since	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 morrow	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 see	advmod
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 see	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 see	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comb	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comb	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 remembrance	punct
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 remembrance	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 remembrance	det
32	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comb	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 you	case
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 remembrance	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	you			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not see	shall	I	you	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	let	infinitive	I not said here	me			tree rules
4	comb	infinitive	me not said here	your head	time	as a remembrance of you	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	remember			you			nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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