The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 184

I cannot build my nest in the Palace and live here; but let me come whenever I like.

Who acts: I, me · What happens: not build, live, let, come, like · To what, where: nest, Palace, me

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 build	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 build	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 build	advmod
4	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Palace	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Palace	det
9	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 build	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 live	cc
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 build	conj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 live	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 build	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 like	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
20	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 come	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not build	can	I	my nest	the Palace		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product
2	live	infinitive	I not said here		here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let	infinitive	I not said here	me			tree rules
4	come	infinitive	me not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	like	present	I			whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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