The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 58
‘Let us stop and look at that gallows,’ exclaimed the Shifty Lad.
Who acts: us · What happens: let, stop, look, exclaim · To what, where: us, Shifty Lad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 look | cc |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stop | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 gallows | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 gallows | det |
| 9 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Lad | det |
| 14 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Lad | amod |
| 15 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | us not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | us not said here | at that gallows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gallows=Theme | ||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | past | the Shifty Lad | tree rules |
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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