The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 85

I am called Curlicue, and am an object of derision; I entreat you to make me less ridiculous.’

Who acts: I · What happens: call, be, entreat, make · To what, where: I, object, you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 called	aux:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	Curlicue	curlicue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 object	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 object	cc
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 object	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 derision	case
11	derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 object	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 entreat	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 entreat	nsubj
14	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 entreat	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 entreat	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 ridiculous	advmod
20	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 make	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 entreat	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 entreat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present · passive		I			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	present		a object		of derision	tree rules
3	entreat	infinitive	I		you		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	me		ridiculous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product

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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