The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 40

“Let us begin at once then,” replied Paul; and on this occasion also, Paul got the better of his foe, and they all four continued their journey.

Who acts: us, Paul, stones · What happens: let, begin, reply, get, continue, journey · To what, where: us, occasion, journey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, Paul, stones), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 begin	obl
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 begin	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 replied	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 got	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 got	cc
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 occasion	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 occasion	det
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 got	obl
17	also	also	ADV	_	20 got	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 also	punct
19	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 got	nsubj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 better	det
22	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 got	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 foe	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 foe	nmod:poss
25	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 better	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 continued	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 continued	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 continued	nsubj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 four	det
30	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 they	nmod
31	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 got	parataxis
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 journey	nmod:poss
33	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 continued	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
2	begin in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	reply speech: assert	past	Paul					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	past	Paul		this occasion		good property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on occasion=Source
5	continue	past	stones = stone	stones's journey				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
6	journey		stones = stone					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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