The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 27
Stay here with me and be my friend, and we will play delightful games together, and every day we will go and gather strawberries.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: stay, be, play, go, gather · To what, where: friend, delightful games, strawberries
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, we), 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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Stay | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Stay | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 friend | cc |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 friend | cop |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 me | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 play | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 play | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 play | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 play | aux |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stay | conj |
| 14 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 games | amod |
| 15 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 play | obj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 play | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stay | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gather | cc |
| 25 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gather | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | here | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | you not said here | my friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play | future | we | delightful games | together property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | future | we | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gather | infinitive | we not said here | strawberries | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=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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