The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 99

“Yes, if my mother will let me,” answered the boy.

Who acts: mother, boy · What happens: let, answer · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, boy), 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	_	8 let	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 let	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 let	mark
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 answered	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	my mother	the boy = boy					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	the boy						tree rules

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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