The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 95

Let us tie up our horses here, and climb up the rocks so that we can roll stones down on them.”

Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, tie up, climb up, roll down · To what, where: us, horses, rocks, stones

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 tie	compound:prt
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horses	nmod:poss
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tie	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tie	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 climb	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 climb	cc
10	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 climb	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rocks	det
13	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 climb	obj
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 roll	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 roll	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 roll	aux
18	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 climb	advcl
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roll	obj
20	down	down	ADV	_	18 roll	advmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 roll	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	tie up	infinitive	us not said here	our horses	here		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	climb up	present	you not said here	the rocks			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=Theme
4	roll down	can	we	stones		on stones = stone; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on they=Trajectory

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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