Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 41

But now let us be merry."

Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, be · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 merry	cop
6	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 let	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	is	infinitive	us not said here					merry property	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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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