The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 11
Let us visit a few towns first, and something lucky will be sure to happen to us.”
Who acts: you, us, something · What happens: let, visit, be, happen · To what, where: us, few towns
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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, us, something), 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 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 towns | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 towns | amod |
| 6 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 visit | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 visit | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sure | cc |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 something | amod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 happen | mark |
| 16 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 happen | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | 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 | visit | infinitive | us not said here | a few towns | first property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is | future | something | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | to-infinitive | something not said here | us | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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