The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 14

Let a carriage be built through which no light can come, and let it be brought into my room.

Who acts: you, carriage, light · What happens: let, build, come, bring · To what, where: carriage, light, room

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, carriage, light), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 carriage	det
3	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 built	aux:pass
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Let	xcomp
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 come	obl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 light	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 built	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 brought	aux:pass
17	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 let	xcomp
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 room	nmod:poss
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brought	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	a carriage		tree rules
2	build	infinitive · passive	a carriage not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»
3	come	can	no light			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location
4	let	infinitive	you not said here	light		tree rules
5	bring	infinitive · passive	light not said here		my room	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into room=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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