--- title: ‘Stay with me, I pray, for I love company and am lonely,’ observed t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Stay with me, I pray, for I love company and am lonely,’ observed the weaver at last, and he pointed to a bed in a corner, where the fisher’s son threw himself, and slept till dawn. Who acts: you, I, weaver, son. 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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, weaver, son), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:17:32 # text = ‘Stay with me, I pray, for I love company and am lonely,’ observed the weaver at last, and he pointed to a bed in a corner, where the fisher’s son threw himself, and slept till dawn. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Stay stay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 pray pray VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 18 observed observe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 weaver weaver NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 pointed point VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 fisher fisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’s 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 40 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 44 till till ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | | 2 | **pray** | present | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **love** | present | I | company | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | I *not said here* | | | | | lonely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **observe** | past | | the weaver | | last | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weaver=Topic | | 6 | **point** | past | weaver | | | | | to a bed; in a corner | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Theme | | 7 | **throw** | past | the fisher's son | weaver | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 8 | **sleep** | past | | | | | dawn | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/17/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/17/33/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/17/)