More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 61
But let that pass, and tell me question third and last, and that is--What do I think?"
Who acts: you, that · What happens: let, pass, tell, question, think · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pass | nsubj |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | question | question | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | xcomp |
| 10 | third | third | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 question | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 last | cc |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 third | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 think | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 think | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 think | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 that | fixed |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 think | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 think | obj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 think | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 think | nsubj |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 23 | " | " | 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 | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | infinitive | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | question speech: other not said to happen | infinitive | you not said here | third property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present · do-support | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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