The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 39

“Then let him show his power by doing three things, and I will give him my daughter.”

Who acts: you, sultan · What happens: let, show, do, give · To what, where: sultan, power, three things, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sultan), 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	_	3 let	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 power	nmod:poss
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obj
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 doing	mark
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 show	ccomp
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 things	nummod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 doing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 give	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughter	nmod:poss
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 give	iobj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	sultan		then	tree rules
2	show in a quote	infinitive	sultan not said here	sultan's power			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent power=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	gerund		three things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	give in a quote	future	the sultan = sultan		my daughter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=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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