The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 128

Go on, boys, sing me the story.’

Who acts: you · What happens: go on, sing · To what, where: boys, story, me

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boys	punct
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Go	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sing	punct
6	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sing	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sing	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	imperative	you not said here	boys					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	infinitive	you not said here	the story	me				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary story=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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