The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 63

“Yes, I am afraid he IS trying,” replied the first; “but let us put them to the proof, and see which of them is the most foolish.”

Who acts: I, husband, us · What happens: be, try, reply, let, put, see · To what, where: first, us, ducks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, husband, us), 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	_	12 replied	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 afraid	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 afraid	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 replied	ccomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 trying	nsubj
8	IS	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 trying	aux
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 afraid	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 first	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 replied	obl:unmarked
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 replied	ccomp
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 put	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 proof	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 proof	det
24	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	conj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 foolish	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 which	obl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 foolish	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 foolish	det
33	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	34 foolish	advmod
34	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 see	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I		afraid property	tree rules
2	try in a quote	present · progressive	husband			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	reply speech: assert	past		the first		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
5	put in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	ducks = duck	to the proof	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
6	see in a quote	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is in a quote	present			foolish property	tree rules

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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