The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 32

“What a strange creature, let us try what he is made of,” said one, and she stooped down and gave him a pinch.

Who acts: strange creature, us, sort · What happens: let, try, make, say, stoop down, give · To what, where: us, creature, one, pinch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange creature, us, sort), 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	_	7 let	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 creature	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 creature	det
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creature	amod
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 creature	punct
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 try	obj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 what	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 made	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stooped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stooped	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stooped	nsubj
22	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 stooped	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stooped	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pinch	det
28	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive	what strange creature	us		tree rules
2	try in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	make in a quote	present · passive		creature		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	say speech: assert	past		one		tree rules
5	stoop down	past	sort			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	give	past	sort not said here	a pinch	creature	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pinch=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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