The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 89

“Let it go! let it go!” whispered the young men to each other; but the captor declared that he had caught it, and was going to keep it.

Who acts: rage, young men, captor · What happens: let, go, whisper, declare, catch, keep · To what, where: rage, captor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rage, young men, captor), 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	11 whispered	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 whispered	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 men	nmod
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 declared	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 declared	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 captor	det
21	captor	captor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 declared	nsubj
22	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 whispered	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 caught	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 caught	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 caught	aux
26	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 declared	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 caught	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 going	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 going	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 whispered	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 keep	mark
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 going	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 keep	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		rage	tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	rage not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive	rage not said here	rage	tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	rage not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	whisper speech: express	past	the young men		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	declare speech: other	past	the captor		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	catch	past · perfect · passive		captor	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Theme
8	go	past · progressive	the young men not said here		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	keep	to-infinitive	the young men not said here	rage	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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