The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 30
“Let us see if you can change yourself into a lion.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, see, change · To what, where: us, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. 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), 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 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 change | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 change | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 change | aux |
| 8 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | ccomp |
| 9 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 change | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 lion | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lion | det |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 change | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | change a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | yourself | into a lion result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient into lion=Result |
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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