The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 26

I cannot run away from you, but give me, I pray you, leave to go every morning and seek food for myself, and every evening I will come back to you.

Who acts: I · What happens: not run away, give, pray, leave, go, seek · To what, where: me, you, food

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 away	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 give	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 give	cc
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 run	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pray	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 pray	nsubj
14	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 give	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 pray	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 leave	punct
17	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 pray	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 leave	xcomp
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 morning	det
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seek	cc
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 myself	case
26	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 seek	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 evening	det
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl:unmarked
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 run	advcl
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 come	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not run away	can	I				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	infinitive	I not said here		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	pray	present	I	you				tree rules
4	leave	infinitive	I not said here					tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	I not said here			morning		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	seek	infinitive	I not said here	food			for myself	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Location for myself=Theme
7	come back	future	I		you	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_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 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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