The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 78
'Let me look at it,' said the old neighbour. '
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, look, say · To what, where: me, old neighbour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 neighbour | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 neighbour | amod |
| 12 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | me not said here | at cracking | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | the old neighbour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent neighbour=Topic |
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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