The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 38

“Oh, let me try too,” cried the prince; “but to-morrow I will wait and see what you do before I begin.

Who acts: prince, you · What happens: let, try, cry, wait, see, do · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, you), 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	_	4 let	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 let	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 try	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 wait	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 wait	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 wait	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 morrow	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wait	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wait	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wait	aux
21	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 wait	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 see	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
26	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	acl:relcl
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 begin	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 begin	nsubj
29	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		the prince = prince		tree rules
2	try in a quote	infinitive	the prince = prince not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	past	the prince			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wait in a quote	future	the prince = prince		to morrow	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see in a quote	infinitive	the prince = prince not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	do in a quote	present	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	begin in a quote	present	the prince = prince			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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