The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 87

“Let me just look at it, and I will tell you whose it ought to be.”

Who acts: you, young man · What happens: let, look, tell, be · To what, where: young man, 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 (you, young man), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 ought	nmod:poss
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ought	nsubj
16	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 be	mark
18	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ought	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the young man = man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	look in a quote	present	you not said here			at stick	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the young man = man		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	be in a quote	to-infinitive	the young man = man 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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