The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 111

‘Here you are at home, so let me go my way,’ it begged once more; ‘or at least make a covenant with me.’

Who acts: you, home, me · What happens: be, let, go, beg, make · To what, where: home, me, way, covenant, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, home, me), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 begged	parataxis
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 home	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 home	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Here	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 begged	nsubj
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 begged	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
21	‘	‘	SYM	_	25 make	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 least	case
24	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 make	obl
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	ccomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 covenant	det
27	covenant	covenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 make	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	you		home		tree rules
2	let	infinitive	home not said here	me			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	me not said here	my way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	home				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make	infinitive		a covenant	least	with me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covenant=Product

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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