The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 50
Stay with me, I pray you, and lead me to the king!’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: stay, pray, lead · To what, where: you, me, king
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. 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), 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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Stay | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lead | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lead | cc |
| 10 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lead | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lead | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | infinitive | you not said here | me | the king | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to king=Destination |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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