Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 64
Let me be your chum, and let us feed together."
Who acts: you, chum, us · What happens: let, be, feed · To what, where: me, us
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, chum, us), 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 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chum | chum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 feed | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 13 | " | " | 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 | be | infinitive | your chum | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed | infinitive | us not said here | together property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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