The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 12

‘I have been benighted in the forest, and I entreat you to let me take shelter in your hut till morning.’

Who acts: I, me · What happens: benight, entreat, let, take · To what, where: I, forest, you, me, shelter, hut

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me), 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 benighted	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 benighted	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 benighted	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 benighted	aux:pass
5	benighted	benight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 benighted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 entreat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 entreat	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 entreat	nsubj
12	entreat	entreat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 benighted	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 entreat	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 let	mark
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 entreat	advcl
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hut	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hut	nmod:poss
21	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
22	till	till	ADP	_	23 morning	case
23	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 benighted	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 benighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	benight	present · perfect · passive		I		the forest		tree rules
2	entreat	infinitive	I		you			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	let	to-infinitive	I not said here	me				tree rules
4	take	infinitive	me not said here	shelter		your hut	morning	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in hut=Location

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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