The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 70

‘Touch me,’ said the Giant, ‘so that you too may come with us under ground.’

Who acts: you · What happens: touch, say, come · To what, where: me, Giant, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 Touch	punct
2	Touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Touch	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Touch	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Touch	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Touch	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Giant	det
8	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 come	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
14	too	too	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Touch	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
19	under	under	ADP	_	20 ground	case
20	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Touch	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Touch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	imperative	you not said here	me			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
3	come	may	you		ground	with us	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under ground=Location

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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