The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 115
Leave me in peace with my turkeys, which I like far better than all your fine gifts.’
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: leave, like, gift · To what, where: me, peace, turkeys
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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, your), 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 peace | case |
| 4 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 turkeys | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 turkeys | nmod:poss |
| 7 | turkeys | turkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Leave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 like | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 turkeys | acl:relcl |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 better | advmod |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 like | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 gifts | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 gifts | det:predet |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gifts | amod |
| 18 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 better | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | me | peace | with my turkeys | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in peace=Location | ||
| 2 | like | present | I | my turkeys | good property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | |||
| 3 | gift | your | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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 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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