The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 37
Let him come hither so that I may see him.’
Who acts: you, Shoot, I · What happens: let, come, see · To what, where: Shoot
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, Shoot, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 see | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | fixed |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Shoot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Shoot not said here | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | may | I | Shoot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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