The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 25
I can remain with you no longer, but must return to my own people.’
Who acts: I · What happens: remain, return
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 remain | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | aux |
| 3 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 remain | obl |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 remain | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 return | cc |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | aux |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 remain | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 people | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 return | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | can | I | with you; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | must | to my own people result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result |
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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