The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 145

Make me your waiting maid, or set me to any work you choose, but do not cast me forth into the world.

Who acts: you · What happens: make, set, choose, not cast · To what, where: waiting maid, me, work, world

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	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 maid	nmod:poss
4	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maid	compound
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 set	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 work	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 work	det
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 choose	nsubj
14	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 work	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cast	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cast	cc
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 cast	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 cast	advmod
19	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 cast	obj
21	forth	forth	ADV	_	19 cast	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cast	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	your waiting maid	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary maid=Product
2	set	infinitive	you not said here	me			to any work	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result
3	choose	present	you	any work not said here				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
4	not cast	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	me		the world	forth property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent i=Material into world=Product

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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