The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 98
‘Master,’ says the other, ‘please let me go back to my forge, and let this carriage be filled with paving stones.’
Who acts: me, carriage · What happens: say, let, go back, fill · To what, where: other, me, carriage · 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, carriage), 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 Master | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 11 let | discourse |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 forge | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 forge | nmod:poss |
| 17 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | conj |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 carriage | det |
| 22 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 filled | aux:pass |
| 24 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 let | xcomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 stones | case |
| 26 | paving | paving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stones | compound |
| 27 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 filled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the other | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go back | infinitive | me not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | this carriage | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fill | infinitive · passive | this carriage not said here | with paving stones | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with stone=Instrument |
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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