The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 143
‘Do not, I beseech you, send me from you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not do, beseech, send · To what, where: you, 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, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beseech | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 beseech | nsubj |
| 6 | beseech | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | parataxis |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 beseech | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 send | punct |
| 9 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 beseech | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 send | iobj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 send | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beseech | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send | infinitive | I not said here | me | from you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from 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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