The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 92

‘Come, then,’ said the dream-boy, ‘and let us sail in your pea-shell boats.

Who acts: dream boy, us · What happens: come, say, let, sail · To what, where: us, shell boats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream boy, us), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
9	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boy	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dream	punct
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	23 boats	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 boats	nmod:poss
20	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shell	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 pea	punct
22	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boats	compound
23	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sail	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	infinitive				then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the dream boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
4	sail	infinitive	us not said here		your shell boats		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/14/92/