The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 37

Then you might make a little arbour up there to let us have a sea-view; and we might have a fiddler to fiddle to us of an evening, and a little steamer to take us to church in stormy weather.’

Who acts: you, us, we, fiddler · What happens: make, let, have, fiddle, take · To what, where: little arbour, us, sea view, fiddler, stormy weather

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. 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, we, fiddler), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 make	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arbour	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 arbour	amod
7	arbour	arbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 make	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 let	mark
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	advcl
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 view	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 view	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
17	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fiddler	det
24	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fiddle	mark
26	fiddle	fiddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 fiddle	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 evening	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 evening	det
31	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fiddle	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 steamer	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 steamer	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 steamer	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 steamer	amod
36	steamer	steamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 take	mark
38	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 steamer	acl
39	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 take	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 church	case
41	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 weather	case
43	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 weather	amod
44	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 take	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	might	you	a little arbour		there	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arbour=Product
2	let	to-infinitive	you not said here	us					tree rules
3	have	infinitive	us not said here	a sea view					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient
4	have	might	we	a fiddler					tree rules
5	fiddle	to-infinitive	a fiddler not said here		us		evening		vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	take	to-infinitive	we not said here	us		stormy weather		to church	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to church=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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