The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 9
‘Let me see your hand, that I may read the future.’
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, see, read · To what, where: me, hand, future
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, me, 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 read | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 read | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 read | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 read | aux |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 future | det |
| 13 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | me not said here | your hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | read | may | I | the future | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Topic |
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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