The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 75

And the crab consented to let him go up, merely saying that he must throw her down half the fruit.

Who acts: crab, Monkey · What happens: consent, let, go up, say, throw down · To what, where: Monkey, Pray · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab, Monkey), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 consented	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crab	det
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 consented	nsubj
4	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 consented	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 go	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saying	punct
11	merely	merely	ADV	_	12 saying	advmod
12	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 consented	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 throw	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 throw	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 throw	aux
16	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 saying	ccomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 throw	obj
18	down	down	ADP	_	16 throw	compound:prt
19	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	21 fruit	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fruit	det
21	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throw	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consent	participle	the crab			vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	to-infinitive	the crab not said here	Monkey		tree rules
3	go up	infinitive	Monkey not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the crab not said here		merely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	throw down	must	Monkey	Pray		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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