The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 122
Loose it, and let it go.’
Who acts: you, reptile · What happens: lose, let, go · To what, where: reptile
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, reptile), 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 | Loose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Loose | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 let | cc |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Loose | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Loose | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Loose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | imperative | you not said here | reptile | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | reptile | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | reptile not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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