The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 279
‘Come now with me; let us go and bury it.’
Who acts: you, us · What happens: come, let, go, bury · To what, where: us, governor
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, us), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bury | cc |
| 11 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bury | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | now | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bury | infinitive | us not said here | governor | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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