The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 77

“Let me try the table-cloth,” said the youth, “and I will tell you whose it ought to be.”

Who acts: youth · What happens: let, try, say, tell, be · To what, where: youth, table 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	11 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cloth	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cloth	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 table	punct
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 youth	det
13	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 ought	nmod:poss
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ought	nsubj
23	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 be	mark
25	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ought	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		the youth = youth		tree rules
2	try in a quote	infinitive	the youth = youth not said here	the table cloth		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	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	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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