The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 72

“Let me put it round me for a moment,” said the youth, “and then I will tell you whose it ought to be!”

Who acts: youth · What happens: let, put, say, tell, be · To what, where: youth, cloth, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	round	round	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 moment	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youth	det
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 tell	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 ought	nmod:poss
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ought	nsubj
26	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 be	mark
28	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ought	xcomp
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		the youth = youth				tree rules
2	put in a quote	infinitive	the youth = youth not said here	cloth		moment	round the youth = youth	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
3	say speech: express	past	the youth					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the youth = youth		you	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	be in a quote	to-infinitive	the youth = youth not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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