The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 46

“Let us see which of us two is strongest,” said the young tortoise, marching up to the elephant.

Who acts: us, young tortoise · What happens: let, see, be, say, march up · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, young tortoise), 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	13 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 strongest	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 which	obl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 us	appos
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strongest	cop
10	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 see	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tortoise	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tortoise	amod
16	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 marching	punct
18	marching	march	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 marching	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 elephant	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 elephant	det
22	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marching	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
2	see in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present			strong property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the young tortoise			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	march up	gerund	the young tortoise not said here		to the elephant result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to elephant=Result

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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