The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 75
‘When you are tired, just whistle, and I’ll let you down.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, let down · To what, where: you
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 (you, 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 | _ | 5 tired | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 tired | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whistle | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 whistle | advmod |
| 8 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tired | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | nsubj |
| 12 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 let | aux |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tired | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 let | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let down | future | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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