Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 71
Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs!
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, go, lose · To what, where: me, wars, arms
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. 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), 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 | Rather | rather | ADV | _ | 2 let | advmod |
| 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 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wars | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wars | det |
| 7 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lose | cc |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | conj |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lose | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 legs | cc |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 arms | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | 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 | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | the wars | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lose | present | you not said here | arms and legs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Eventuality |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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