The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 10

Let the ceremony be performed without delay, and we will set forth at once.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: let, perform, set · To what, where: ceremony

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ceremony	det
3	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 performed	aux:pass
5	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ceremony	acl
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 delay	case
7	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 performed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 set	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 set	aux
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
13	forth	forth	ADV	_	12 set	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 set	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the ceremony		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=Theme
2	perform	infinitive · passive		the ceremony not said here	without delay	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»
3	set	future	we		forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at once=Destination

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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