The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 92

Come with me, my faithful friend; we will go to the grave of the Prophet, and perhaps at that sacred spot the spell may be loosed.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: come, go, spot, loose · To what, where: grave, spell

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Come	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friend	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
6	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 grave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grave	det
14	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Prophet	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Prophet	det
17	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 grave	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 loosed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 loosed	cc
20	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 sacred	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 sacred	obl
23	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 loosed	parataxis
24	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sacred	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spell	det
26	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spot	obj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 loosed	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 loosed	aux:pass
29	loosed	loose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 go	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here			with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	future	we		the grave of the Prophet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location
3	spot	infinitive		the spell			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spell=Destination
4	loose	may · passive	we not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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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