The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 58
So let us forget all about it, and be happy once more, for see! our son is growing quite a big boy.’
Who acts: you, us, see · What happens: let, forget, be, grow · To what, where: us, big boy
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, see), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 it | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forget | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happy | cc |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 happy | cop |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 let | parataxis |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 happy | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 see | case |
| 16 | see | see | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 growing | nsubj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 growing | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 growing | aux |
| 21 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 happy | parataxis |
| 22 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 boy | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 boy | det |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 boy | amod |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 growing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | infinitive | us not said here | about house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow | present · progressive | see | quite big boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=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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