The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 66

‘When I am tired of it I will shake my legs, and then you must let me down,’ said he.

Who acts: I, you, Lad · What happens: be, shake, let down, say · To what, where: legs, me · 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 (I, you, Lad), 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 shake	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 tired	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shake	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tired	obl
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 shake	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 shake	aux
10	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shake	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 let	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 let	aux
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shake	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 let	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shake	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 shake	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			of cord; tired property	tree rules
2	shake	future	I	my legs			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	let down	must	you	me	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Lad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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