The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 73

‘The time has come for me to go hence, but tell me, I pray you, how to find the Sweet Milk Lake, and I will return, and will bring my wife back with me.’

Who acts: time, me, I · What happens: come, go, tell, pray, find, return · To what, where: me, you, Sweet Milk Lake, wife · 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 (time, me, I), 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	_	5 come	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	advcl
10	hence	hence	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pray	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 pray	nsubj
17	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 pray	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 find	punct
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 find	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 pray	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Lake	det
24	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Lake	amod
25	Milk	Milk	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Lake	compound
26	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 return	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 return	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 return	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 return	aux
31	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 find	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bring	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bring	cc
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 bring	aux
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pray	conj
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obj
38	back	back	ADV	_	35 bring	advmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	the time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	to-infinitive	me			hence property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	pray	present	I	you			tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	the Sweet Milk Lake			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Topic
6	return	future	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bring back	future	I not said here		my wife	with me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination

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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