The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 58

'Let us have a match at shinny on the lawn of the knight of Grianaig, for his lawn is wider and the grass smoother than ours.'

Who acts: you, us, lawn, grass · What happens: let, have, be · To what, where: us, match, shinny

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. 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, lawn, grass), 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	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 shinny	case
8	shinny	shinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 lawn	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lawn	det
11	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shinny	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 knight	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knight	det
14	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lawn	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Grianaig	case
16	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 knight	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wider	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 wider	mark
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lawn	nmod:poss
20	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wider	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wider	cop
22	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Let	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 smoother	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grass	det
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smoother	nsubj
26	smoother	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 wider	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 ours	case
28	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 smoother	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	have	infinitive	us not said here	a match	shinny on the lawn of the knight of Grianaig		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Patient
3	is	present	Grianaig's lawn			wide property	tree rules
4	be		the grass			than ours	tree rules

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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