The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 47
‘Let me go now, kind lad; I am no common prisoner, but the king of this country.
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, go, be · To what, where: me, common prisoner
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. 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, 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lad | punct |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lad | amod |
| 8 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | vocative |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 prisoner | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 prisoner | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 prisoner | cop |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 prisoner | det |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prisoner | amod |
| 14 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 king | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prisoner | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | now | kind lad vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | I | no common prisoner | tree rules |
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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