The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 61

'Let him be pleased or angry as he will,' said Ian; 'we will drive our ball on his lawn to-day.'

Who acts: grass, Ian, we · What happens: let, be, say, drive · To what, where: grass, ball, lawn · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grass, Ian, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 pleased	cop
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Let	xcomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 angry	cc
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pleased	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 will	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 will	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 drive	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 drive	aux
19	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 ball	nmod:poss
21	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 lawn	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lawn	nmod:poss
24	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 to	punct
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drive	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 drive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		grass				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	infinitive	grass not said here				pleased property	tree rules
3	be		grass not said here					tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Ian					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	drive	future	we	our ball	grass's lawn	day		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on lawn=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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