The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 49

“Let me catch my fish, and I will soon make you a fire,” he answered gaily, for he was young, and knew nothing about the difficulties of fire-making.

Who acts: you, Hare · What happens: let, catch, make, answer, be, know · To what, where: Hare, fish, fire, you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hare), 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	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fish	nmod:poss
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 make	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 make	aux
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 make	advmod
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 answered	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 answered	nsubj
19	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	parataxis
20	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 answered	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 young	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 young	case
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 young	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 young	cop
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gaily	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knew	cc
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 answered	conj
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 knew	obj
30	about	about	ADP	_	32 difficulties	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 difficulties	det
32	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 nothing	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 making	case
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 making	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 fire	punct
36	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 difficulties	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Hare			tree rules
2	catch in a quote	infinitive	Hare not said here	my fish			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	make in a quote	future	Hare	a fire	you	soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary fire=Product
4	answer speech: assert	past	Hare			gaily property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Hare			young property	tree rules
6	know	past	Hare not said here	nothing		about the difficulties of fire making	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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