The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 44

'Let us take it and row over to the island, where there must be a house,' said the eldest brother; 'and perhaps they will give us food and shelter.'

Who acts: you, us, eldest brother, brothers · What happens: let, take, row over, be, say, give · To what, where: us, half, island, house, food · 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, us, eldest brother, brothers), 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	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 row	cc
7	row	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 row	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 island	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 island	det
11	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 row	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 house	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 house	advmod
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 be	expl
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 house	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 island	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 row	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 brother	det
23	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 brother	amod
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
26	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 give	cc
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 give	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 give	aux
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 give	iobj
33	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 give	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 shelter	cc
35	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 food	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us				tree rules
2	take	infinitive	us not said here	half				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	row over	present	you not said here			the island and a house	over property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to island=Trajectory
4	is a	infinitive	you not said here	a house				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the eldest brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	give	future	brothers = brother	food and shelter	us		perhaps property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient food=Theme

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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