The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 50
But let us be quick,” and rather unwillingly the donkey set out.
Who acts: you, us, donkey · What happens: let, be, set out · To what, where: us
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, donkey), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quick | cop |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 unwillingly | advmod |
| 10 | unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 13 set | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 donkey | det |
| 12 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 quick | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | us not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set out in a quote | participle | the donkey | unwillingly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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