The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 39

‘Now let me go,’ he cried at last, ‘for poor Mogarzea must be dying of hunger.

Who acts: you, me, boy, poor Mogarzea · What happens: let, go, cry, die · To what, where: me, last

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 (you, me, boy, poor Mogarzea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg641:3742): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dying	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 dying	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 dying	mark
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Mogarzea	amod
16	Mogarzea	Mogarzea	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dying	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 dying	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 dying	aux
19	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 let	advcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 hunger	case
21	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dying	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me		now		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	me not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	boy		last			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	die	must · progressive	poor Mogarzea				of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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