The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 67

‘By showing me where the Milk Lake is, and how I can get one of the three fairies who lives there to wife, and by letting me remain your son for ever.’

Who acts: Milk Lake, I, three fairies, me · What happens: show, be, get, live, let, remain · To what, where: me, one, wife, son · 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 (Milk Lake, I, three fairies, me), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 showing	punct
2	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 showing	mark
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 showing	iobj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 is	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lake	det
7	Milk	Milk	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Lake	compound
8	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 get	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 get	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 get	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 showing	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 get	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 fairies	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fairies	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 fairies	nummod
20	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 lives	nsubj
22	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fairies	acl:relcl
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 lives	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 wife	mark
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lives	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 letting	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 letting	cc
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	29 letting	mark
29	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 showing	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 letting	obj
31	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 letting	xcomp
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 son	nmod:poss
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 remain	iobj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 ever	case
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 remain	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showing	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 showing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	show	gerund			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	be	present	the Milk Lake				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	can	I	one of the three fairies			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	live	present	the three fairies	wife		there	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let	gerund		me			tree rules
6	remain	infinitive	me not said here		your son		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme son=Attribute

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/67/