More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 50
Let us put it together, and make us a home or else stay on at service as pleases you."
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, put, make, stay on, please · To what, where: us, bit, home, you, service
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 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, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 home | det |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 stay | cc |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 stay | advmod |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stay | compound:prt |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 service | case |
| 17 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pleases | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 pleases | advmod |
| 19 | pleases | please | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stay | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 pleases | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | us not said here | bit | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | a home | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary home=Product | |||
| 4 | stay on | infinitive | you not said here | else property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | please | present | you not said here | you | service | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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