The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 43

Do set me free, like a good clown, and I’ll do you a good turn some day.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: set, 'll, do · To what, where: me, you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 set	aux
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 set	obj
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 set	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clown	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 clown	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 clown	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clown	amod
9	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ’ll	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ’ll	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ’ll	nsubj
13	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
14	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ’ll	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 do	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 turn	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 turn	amod
18	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	imperative · do-support	you not said here	me		like a good clown; free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result
2	'll	present	I				tree rules
3	do	present	I not said here	you	day		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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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