The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 43
I can do nothing right, so let me, I pray you, stay with you.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: do, let, pray, stay · To what, where: nothing, me, you
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | advcl |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 let | advmod |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pray | nsubj |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 pray | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 stay | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | nothing | right property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | you not said here | with you | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=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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