The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 70
At last, out of pity for him, I let him go.
Who acts: I, Quimus · What happens: let, go · To what, where: Quimus, last pity
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Quimus), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 pity | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pity | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pity | punct |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 pity | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pity | case |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pity | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pity | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | nsubj |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | I | Quimus | last pity for Quimus | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Quimus not said here | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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