Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 16

Come with me, my dear, and let us see how the youngsters are shaping in the school.

Who acts: you, us, youngsters · What happens: come, let, see, shape · To what, where: us, school

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. 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, youngsters), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Come	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dear	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dear	nmod:poss
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Come	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 dear	parataxis
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 shaping	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 youngsters	det
14	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shaping	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 shaping	aux
16	shaping	shape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 see	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 school	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 school	det
19	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shaping	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here			with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
3	see	infinitive	us not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	shape	present · progressive	the youngsters		the school		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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