The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 80

‘Then hold on to me,’ said the Giant, ‘so that I may lead you up above again.’

Who acts: I · What happens: hold on, say, lead up · To what, where: me, Giant, you · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hold	advmod
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 hold	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hold	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 hold	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giant	det
11	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lead	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 lead	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 lead	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 lead	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 lead	aux
18	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 lead	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 lead	compound:prt
21	above	above	ADV	_	18 lead	advmod
22	again	again	ADV	_	18 lead	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	infinitive			me	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the Giant				tree rules
3	lead up	may	I	you		again	above property	tree rules

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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