The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 3
On your way back, come to me again, and I will give you something that may be of use to you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, give, be · To what, where: me, way, something, you
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 use | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 use | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 use | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 use | case |
| 21 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 something | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 use | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | me | your way | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | give | future | I | something | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | may | you | of use | tree rules |
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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