The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 32

So at last he let her bind the handkerchief round his ankle and hang him over the wall, and they both laughed and jested at the strength of the princess.

Who acts: path, princess, bride · What happens: let, bind, hang, laugh, jest · To what, where: princess, last, handkerchief, path, wall, strength

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, princess, bride), 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	_	5 let	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 handkerchief	det
9	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bind	obj
10	round	round	ADP	_	12 ankle	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ankle	nmod:poss
12	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bind	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hang	cc
14	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bind	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hang	obj
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 wall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wall	det
18	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hang	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laughed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laughed	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laughed	nsubj
22	both	both	ADV	_	23 laughed	advmod
23	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 jested	cc
25	jested	jest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 laughed	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 strength	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 strength	det
28	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 jested	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 princess	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 strength	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	path	princess	last		tree rules
2	bind	infinitive	princess not said here	the handkerchief		round path's ankle	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient
3	hang	infinitive	princess not said here	path	the wall		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme over wall=Destination
4	laugh	past	bride			both property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	jest speech: other	past	bride not said here		the strength of the princess		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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