The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 107
'Let us go in and ask for some water,' said the eagle's wife; and in they went.
Who acts: us, sorts · What happens: let, go in, ask, say, go · To what, where: us, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, sorts), 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 | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ask | cc |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eagle | det |
| 15 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 eagle | case |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 went | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | us not said here | for some water | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the eagle's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | past | sorts = sort | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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