The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 80

Now, if you'd just let me fasten you up?"

Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, fasten up · To what, where: me, you

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 let	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 let	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 let	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 fasten	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 fasten	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would	you	me			now		tree rules
2	fasten up	infinitive	me not said here	you					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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