The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 65
Anyway, we will let it stay here for a bit, and see what happens.'
Who acts: we, purr · What happens: let, stay, see, happen · To what, where: purr · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, purr), 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 | Anyway | anyway | INTJ | _ | 5 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Anyway | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 bit | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 happens | nsubj |
| 16 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | future | we | purr | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | purr not said here | here | for a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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