The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 121
Let the bugles sound and the joy bells be rung!”
Who acts: you, bugles · What happens: let, sound, ring · To what, where: joy bells
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bugles), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bugles | det |
| 3 | bugles | bugle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rung | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bells | det |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bells | compound |
| 8 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rung | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rung | aux:pass |
| 10 | rung | ring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sound | conj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | the bugles | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ring | infinitive · passive | the joy bells | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/5/121/