The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 48
Let me go free and ask what you will as your reward.’
Who acts: you, me, your · What happens: let, go, ask, as, reward · To what, where: me, reward · Speech: someone speaks here
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, your), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ask | cc |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 as | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 as | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 as | aux |
| 10 | as | as | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 reward | nmod:poss |
| 12 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 as | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 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 | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | as | future | you | your reward | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reward | your | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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