The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 17

But you must get on my back and come with me.’

Who acts: you · What happens: get, come · To what, where: back

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 get	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 come	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	must	you			my back			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
2	come	infinitive	you not said here					with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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