The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 100

Let us give him food and send him on his travels, and perhaps, if the mermaid ever blocs come to seek him, she may be content with some other child.”

Who acts: you, us, mermaid, place · What happens: let, give, send, travel, come, seek · To what, where: us, food, Boy

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. 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, mermaid, place), 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	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 send	cc
7	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 give	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 send	obj
9	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 travels	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 travels	nmod:poss
11	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 send	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 perhaps	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mermaid	det
18	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 blocs	advmod
20	blocs	bloc	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mermaid	conj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 seek	mark
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seek	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 content	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 content	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 content	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 content	cop
29	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 child	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 child	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 child	amod
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 content	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	give	infinitive	us not said here	food	Boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
3	send	infinitive	us not said here	Boy			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	travel	present	us not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come a condition, not said to happen	present	the mermaid and blocs			perhaps property	tree rules
6	seek	to-infinitive	the mermaid and blocs not said here	Boy			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	is	may	place			with some other child; content property	tree rules

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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