The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 138

You once opened your arms to me; you cannot thrust me away now.’

Who acts: You · What happens: open, not thrust away · To what, where: arms, me

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 opened	advmod
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 opened	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 opened	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 thrust	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 thrust	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 thrust	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 thrust	advmod
12	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 opened	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 thrust	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	12 thrust	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 thrust	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thrust	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	You	your arms	me			once property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to i=Recipient
2	not thrust away	can	you	me			now	away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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