The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 87

‘Let me see them first, father,’ said she; but when she examined them she knew them right well, and guessed it was her true love that sent them.

Who acts: me, earnest, Faith, true love · What happens: let, see, say, examine, know, guess · To what, where: me, crowns, true love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, earnest, Faith, true love), 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 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 see	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 father	punct
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 knew	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 knew	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 examined	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 examined	nsubj
17	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 knew	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 examined	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 knew	obj
22	right	right	ADV	_	23 well	advmod
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 knew	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 guessed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 guessed	cc
26	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 love	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 love	cop
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 love	nmod:poss
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 love	amod
31	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 guessed	ccomp
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sent	nsubj
33	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 love	acl:relcl
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sent	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
2	see	infinitive	me not said here	crowns = crown	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	earnest = earn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	examine	past	earnest = earn	crowns = crown		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	know	past	earnest = earn	crowns = crown	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
6	guess	past	earnest = earn not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	Faith	earnest's true love		tree rules
8	send	past	earnest's true love	crowns = crown		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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