The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 67
Let him play a tune if it will make him happy.”
Who acts: you, man, light · What happens: let, play, make · To what, where: man, tune
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, man, light), 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 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tune | det |
| 5 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 play | obj |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 play | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | 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 | man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | infinitive | man not said here | a tune | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen | future | light | man | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |
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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