The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 38

'Now let us divide it, so that we can each do what we like with his share.'

Who acts: you, us, each, we, jackal · What happens: let, divide, do, like, share · To what, where: us, grain

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 (you, us, each, we), 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	_	3 let	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 divide	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 can	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 can	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
16	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 share	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 share	nmod:poss
19	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us	now		tree rules
2	divide	infinitive	us not said here	grain			vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	do	can	each				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	like	present	we			with jackal's share	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	share		jackal				nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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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