The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 29

‘Let me sleep once more in the Chamber of Echoes.’

Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, sleep · To what, where: me, Chamber

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. 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), 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	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sleep	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Chamber	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Chamber	det
9	Chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Echoes	case
11	Echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Chamber	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
13	’	'	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	sleep	infinitive	me not said here			the Chamber of Echoes			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=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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