The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 85

‘Let the porter go forth, and I will tell him how he may know him.

Who acts: you, porter, I, giant · What happens: let, go, tell, know · To what, where: porter, giant, name · 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, porter, I, giant), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porter	det
4	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 know	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the porter			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the porter not said here			forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	future	I		giant		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	know	may	giant	name			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: 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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