The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 30
Give me leave, therefore, to return home, and do you continue your journey under the care of my brother.
Who acts: you, your, brother · What happens: give, leave, return, continue, journey, care · To what, where: me, journey, care
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your, brother), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 1 Give | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 return | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 continue | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 continue | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 continue | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 continue | nsubj |
| 14 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 continue | obj |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 care | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 care | det |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 continue | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 care | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | me | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | continue | present · do-support | you | your journey | the care of my brother | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 5 | journey | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | care | my brother | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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