The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 97

'Yes, do let us!' answered the hedgehog.

What happens: let, answer · To what, where: us, hedgehog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	5 let	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 let	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hedgehog	det
11	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive · do-support		us					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			the hedgehog				tree rules

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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