The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 44

I will look after the flocks or do any work you tell me; I will obey your lightest word; only do not, I entreat you, send me back to her.

Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: look, do, tell, obey, not do, entreat · To what, where: work, me, lightest word, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, your), 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 look	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 flocks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flocks	det
6	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 work	det
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 work	acl:relcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 obey	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 obey	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 obey	aux
17	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	conj
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 word	nmod:poss
19	lightest	light	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 word	amod
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obey	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 look	conj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 do	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 entreat	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 entreat	nsubj
27	entreat	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 entreat	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 send	punct
30	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	27 entreat	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 send	iobj
32	back	back	ADV	_	30 send	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 send	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	future	I			after the flocks		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	infinitive	I not said here	any work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	present	you	any work not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	obey	future	I	your lightest word				vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	not do	infinitive	I not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	entreat	present	I		you			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	send back	infinitive	I not said here		me		to stepmother	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to she=Destination
8	word		your					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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