Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 14

"Fetch your cat, then, my lad," said Mr. Fitzwarren, "and let her go out.

Who acts: Fitzwarren, cat · What happens: fetch, say, let, go out · To what, where: cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fitzwarren, cat), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fetch	punct
2	Fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cat	nmod:poss
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fetch	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fetch	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Fetch	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lad	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lad	nmod:poss
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fetch	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fetch	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fetch	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Fitzwarren	nmod:desc
14	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Fitzwarren	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Fitzwarren	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fetch in a quote	infinitive		your cat	then	my lad vocative	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Fitzwarren Mr.				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive	Fitzwarren Mr. not said here	cat			tree rules
4	go out in a quote	infinitive	cat not said here			out property	vn interact-36.6 «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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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