The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 21

‘But as you really have got him, let us see if we can’t put him to some use.

Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: get, let, see, not put · To what, where: Antoine, us

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. 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, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 let	cc
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 got	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 let	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 put	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 put	nsubj
15	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 put	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 put	advmod
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 use	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 use	det
21	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	you	Antoine			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
3	see	infinitive	us not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not put a condition, not said to happen	can	we		Antoine	to some use	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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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