The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 71
Do let me rest a moment, or--’ but he was so breathless that he could not finish his sentence.
Who acts: you, me, Medio · What happens: let, rest, be, not finish, sentence · To what, where: me, sentence
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. 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, Medio), 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 let | aux |
| 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 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 breathless | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 breathless | cc |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 or | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 or | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 breathless | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 breathless | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 breathless | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 breathless | advmod |
| 15 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 let | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 finish | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 finish | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 finish | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 finish | advmod |
| 20 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 breathless | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sentence | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 finish | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | infinitive | me not said here | moment | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Medio | breathless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not finish | could | Medio | Medio's sentence | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector sentence=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | sentence | Medio | nom sentence «communication 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 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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