The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 78
‘Oh, my lord, protect me from my husband!
Who acts: you · What happens: protect · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 7 protect | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 protect | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lord | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 protect | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 husband | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 protect | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | imperative | you not said here | me | from my husband | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary from husband=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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