The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 164

“We’ll soon see,” said the old man; “if you are stronger than I then I’ll let you off; come, let’s have a try.”

Who acts: We, old man, you, ’s · What happens: see, say, be, let off, come, let · To what, where: you, ’s, try · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, old man, you, ’s), 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	_	5 see	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 stronger	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 stronger	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 stronger	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 stronger	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 stronger	cop
17	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 said	parataxis
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 let	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 let	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj
22	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stronger	advcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	off	off	ADP	_	23 let	compound:prt
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
29	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	conj
30	’s	we	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 try	det
33	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	future	We			soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			strong property	tree rules
4	let off in a quote	future	the old man = man	you	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	let in a quote	infinitive		’s			tree rules
7	have in a quote	infinitive	’s not said here	a try			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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