The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 19
“Let us go in, ancient dame,” but she interrupted him.
Who acts: you, us, harm · What happens: let, go in, interrupt · To what, where: us, man
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, harm), 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 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dame | punct |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dame | amod |
| 8 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 interrupted | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 interrupted | nsubj |
| 13 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 interrupted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | ancient dame obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | interrupt | past | harm | man | 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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