The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 22

'Let the giants guard their treasures themselves,' he said to himself at last; 'I am going away.

Who acts: you, giants, Jack, I · What happens: let, guard, say, go away, treasure · To what, where: treasures, Jack, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, giants, Jack, I), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giants	det
4	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guard	nsubj
5	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	ccomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 treasures	nmod:poss
7	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guard	obj
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 guard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 going	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 going	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here					tree rules
2	guard	present	the giants	giants's treasures				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Jack		Jack	last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	go away	present · progressive	I				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	treasure		giants = giant					nom treasure «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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