The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 35

Then return at once to me and get on my back, and I will help you to drive all the wolves together.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: return, get, help, drive · To what, where: me, back, you, wolves

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 return	advmod
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 return	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 return	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 get	cc
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 return	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 help	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 help	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 help	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 help	aux
16	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 return	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 help	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 drive	mark
19	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 help	xcomp
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 wolves	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wolves	det
22	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 drive	obj
23	together	together	ADV	_	19 drive	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 return	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	imperative	you not said here		me		then		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to i=Result
2	get	infinitive	you not said here			my back			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
3	help	future	I	you					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	drive	to-infinitive	you not said here	all wolves				together property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme wolf=Trajectory

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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