The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 33

Do let me go, father,’ said the boy, as they stretched themselves out to sleep.

Who acts: me, boy, father · What happens: let, go, say, stretch out, sleep · To what, where: me, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, boy, father), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 let	aux
2	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stretched	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 stretched	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stretched	nsubj
15	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 stretched	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 stretched	compound:prt
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sleep	mark
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stretched	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive · do-support		me		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	me not said here		father vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stretch out	past	father	father		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
5	sleep	to-infinitive	father not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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