The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 81
Let them come and get the roots for themselves; but we will fish for eels and anything else we can get.”
Who acts: you, roots, we · What happens: let, come, get, fish · To what, where: roots
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, roots, we), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roots | det |
| 7 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 themselves | case |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 get | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fish | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fish | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fish | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fish | aux |
| 14 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 eels | case |
| 16 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fish | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 anything | cc |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 eels | conj |
| 19 | else | else | ADV | _ | 18 anything | advmod |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anything | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | roots = root | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | roots = root not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | roots = root not said here | the roots | for roots = root | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent root=Theme for themselves=Source | |||
| 4 | fish | future | we | for eels | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for eel=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | can | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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