The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 43

Let us set off at once in search of the sister.

Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, set off, search · To what, where: us, search, sister

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. 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	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	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 set	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 search	case
8	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sister	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sister	det
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 search	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us		tree rules
2	set off	infinitive	us not said here		search of the sister	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	search			the sister		nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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