The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 242

I will bury him better afterwards, but just let me have the sheet to wipe myself with, for he was bleeding, and I have got covered with blood with carrying him.’

Who acts: I, me, father, blood · What happens: bury, let, have, wipe, bleed, get · To what, where: father, me, sheet, myself

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me, father, blood), 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 bury	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bury	aux
3	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bury	obj
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 bury	advmod
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 bury	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 let	advmod
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 bury	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sheet	det
14	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wipe	mark
16	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sheet	acl
17	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 wipe	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	16 wipe	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bleeding	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 bleeding	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bleeding	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bleeding	aux
23	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 have	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 got	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 got	aux
28	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 bury	parataxis
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 got	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 blood	case
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	obl
32	with	with	SCONJ	_	33 carrying	mark
33	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 blood	acl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 carrying	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bury	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 bury	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bury	future	I	father	afterwards, well property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	let	infinitive	I not said here	me		tree rules
3	have	infinitive	me not said here	the sheet		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Patient
4	wipe	to-infinitive	me not said here	myself		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent myself=Source
5	bleed	past · progressive	father			vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
6	get	present · perfect	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	cover	participle	I not said here		with blood	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=Theme
8	carry	gerund	blood not said here	father		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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