The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 97

“Let me try them, and then I shall be able to tell you whose they ought to be.”

Who acts: you, youth · What happens: let, try, be, tell · To what, where: youth, shoes, 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, 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 try	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 able	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 able	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 able	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 able	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 able	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Let	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 ought	nmod:poss
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ought	nsubj
18	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 be	mark
20	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ought	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the youth = youth				tree rules
2	try in a quote	infinitive	the youth = youth not said here	shoes = shoe				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	shall	the youth = youth			then	able property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the youth = youth not said here		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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