The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 23

‘Let that be no hindrance,’ answered Maurice; ‘my mouth just holds a glass to the drop; often I’ve tried it sure.’

Who acts: you, that, mouth, I · What happens: let, be, answer, hold, have, try · To what, where: hindrance, Maurice, glass

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, mouth, I), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hindrance	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hindrance	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 hindrance	det
6	hindrance	hindrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	parataxis
10	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 holds	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 holds	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 holds	nsubj
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 holds	advmod
16	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 glass	det
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 holds	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 drop	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 drop	det
21	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 holds	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 ’ve	punct
23	often	often	ADV	_	25 ’ve	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 ’ve	nsubj
25	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	parataxis
26	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ’ve	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sure	nsubj
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tried	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	is a	infinitive	that	no hindrance			tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past			Maurice		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent maurice=Eventuality
4	hold	present	my mouth	a glass		to the drop	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme
5	have	present	I			often property	tree rules
6	try	past	I not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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