The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 275

Ah! leave us alone that we may weep.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: leave, weep · To what, where: us

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 (you, we), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 leave	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 leave	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 leave	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 weep	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 weep	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 weep	aux
9	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leave	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	us				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	weep	may	we						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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