The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 90

You hold me so tight that I cannot walk.’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: hold, not walk · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hold	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 tight	advmod
5	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hold	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 walk	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 walk	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 walk	advmod
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tight	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	You	me				tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	not walk	can	I						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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