The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 30

'Oh, thank you, thank you,' cried the jackal; 'do not let us lose a moment.'

Who acts: us · What happens: thank, cry, not let, lose · To what, where: you, jackal, us

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 thank	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thank	punct
7	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thank	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jackal	det
13	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thank	conj
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lose	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	thank speech: thank	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past		the jackal			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=Topic
4	not let	infinitive · do-support		us			tree rules
5	lose	infinitive	us not said here			moment	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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