The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 14
Sit down again, and let us finish our meal; I shall sit between you, and then neither of you can blame the other.”
Who acts: you, us, I, neither · What happens: sit down, let, finish, sit, blame · To what, where: us, meal, other
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. 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, I, neither), 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 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Sit | compound:prt |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Sit | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | parataxis |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 meal | nmod:poss |
| 10 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finish | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sit | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sit | aux |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Sit | conj |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 sit | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blame | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 blame | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 blame | advmod |
| 20 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 blame | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 neither | nmod |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 blame | aux |
| 24 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sit | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blame | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | imperative | you not said here | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | finish | infinitive | us not said here | our meal | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meal=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sit | shall | I | between you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between you=Location | ||||
| 5 | blame | can | neither | the other | then | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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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