The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 22

‘Let us take to making shoes,’ said Manawyddan, ‘for there are not any among the shoemakers bold enough to fight us.’

Who acts: us, Manawyddan · What happens: let, take, make, say, be, fight · To what, where: us, shoes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (us, Manawyddan), 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	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 take	advcl
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 making	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shoemakers	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 shoemakers	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 are	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 are	expl
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 shoemakers	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 any	advmod
18	any	any	ADV	_	16 are	advmod
19	among	among	ADP	_	21 shoemakers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shoemakers	det
21	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	parataxis
22	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shoemakers	amod
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 bold	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fight	mark
25	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bold	advcl
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 fight	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 shoemakers	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 shoemakers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
2	take	infinitive	us not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund	us not said here	shoes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product
4	say speech: assert	past	Manawyddan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is	present			among the shoemakers	tree rules
6	fight	to-infinitive		us		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-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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