The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 67
Let us give them a lesson, and kill them as soon as we get in.
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, give, kill, get in · To what, where: us, lesson, wives
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:1088): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lesson | det |
| 6 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kill | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kill | cc |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 kill | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 soon | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 get | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | 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 | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | us not said here | a lesson | wives = wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lesson=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | us not said here | wives = wife | soon property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | get in | present | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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