Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 136

Let us see now," said he, "if I have been honest, they will come swimming back to me."

Who acts: you, us, I, brother · What happens: let, see, say, be, come, swim back · To what, where: us, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. 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, I, brother), 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	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 see	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 he	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 honest	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 honest	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 honest	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 honest	cop
15	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 come	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 honest	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
20	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 come	xcomp
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 swimming	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 swimming	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us				tree rules
2	see	infinitive	us not said here			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	I				honest property	tree rules
5	come	future	brother					tree rules
6	swim back	gerund	brother not said here		me			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to i=Destination

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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