The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 89
‘Let us set the herring-net just this once.’
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, set · To what, where: us, herring net
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. 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), 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 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 net | det |
| 6 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 net | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 herring | punct |
| 8 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 this | advmod |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 set | obj |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 set | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | 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 | set | infinitive | us not said here | the herring net | once property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent net=Theme this=Destination |
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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