The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 78

Now come into the garden, that I may talk to you under the lime trees, where no one can hear us.’

Who acts: you, I, one · What happens: come, talk, hear · To what, where: garden, you, lime trees, us

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. 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, one), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 talk	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	aux
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 come	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 talk	obl
13	under	under	ADP	_	16 trees	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trees	det
15	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trees	compound
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 talk	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 hear	advmod
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hear	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 talk	conj
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hear	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here			the garden	now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
2	talk	may	I		you	the lime trees		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent
3	hear	can	no one	us				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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