The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 70
Now let us return home, for it is time for supper.
Who acts: you, us, story · What happens: let, return, be · To what, where: us, time
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. 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, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:2268): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 return | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 time | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 time | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | cop |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 supper | case |
| 12 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 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 | us | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | infinitive | us not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | story | time | for supper | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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