The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 35

‘Come hither, come hither, my handsome son, and let me comb your hair.’

Who acts: you, me · What happens: come, let, comb · To what, where: me, hair

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hither	hither	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
6	hither	hither	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
9	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	comb	comb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 comb	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here		hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	infinitive	you not said here		my handsome son vocative; hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	me		tree rules
4	comb	infinitive	me not said here	your hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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