The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 128

And that you may see that what I say is true let two of you go thither on my shoulders.’

Who acts: you, I, let two · What happens: see, say, be, go · To what, where: shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, let two), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 see	cc
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 say	mark
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 say	obj
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	ccomp
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 true	cop
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 go	advcl
12	let	let	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 two	amod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 go	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
17	thither	thither	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 shoulders	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoulders	nmod:poss
20	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see	may	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	I			tree rules
3	is	present	let two not said here		true property	tree rules
4	go	present	let two	my shoulders	thither property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location

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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