The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 17

'Let them go,' said the wife of Iarlaid, when she heard of it. '

Who acts: you, brothers, wife · What happens: let, go, say, hear · To what, where: brothers, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers, wife), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Iarlaid	case
11	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 heard	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heard	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	brothers = brother		tree rules
2	go	infinitive	brothers = brother not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	you not said here	the wife of Iarlaid		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
4	hear	past	wife		of last	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

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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