The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 96
Let us then go, to-morrow, to bring in timber to make a kraal.'
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, go, bring in, make · To what, where: us, morrow, timber, kraal
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. 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 | 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 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 morrow | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 morrow | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bring | compound:prt |
| 13 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bring | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kraal | det |
| 17 | kraal | kraal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | 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 | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | us not said here | morrow | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bring in | to-infinitive | us not said here | timber | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme timber=Asset | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | us not said here | a kraal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kraal=Product |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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