The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 25

But he sent Abu Nowas the gold he had promised, and let us hope that it did not fly so fast as the last had done.

Who acts: Sultana, us, gold, last · What happens: send, promise, let, hope, not fly, do · To what, where: gold, Abu, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultana, us, gold, last), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 sent	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
5	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Abu	flat
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gold	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 promised	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 promised	aux
10	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 gold	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 fly	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fly	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fly	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fly	advmod
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hope	ccomp
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 fast	advmod
22	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 fly	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 done	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 last	det
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 done	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 fly	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	Sultana	the gold	Abu		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent abu=Destination gold=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	Sultana	the gold not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
3	let	infinitive	Sultana not said here	us			tree rules
4	hope	infinitive	us not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	not fly	past · do-support	gold			fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	do	past · perfect	the last				vn act-114-1 «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: «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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