The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 118

Dearest mother, do look at me close.

Who acts: Dearest mother · What happens: look

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dearest mother), 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	Dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 mother	amod
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mother	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	Dearest mother not said here					at me; close property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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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