The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 81
As to the cargo, let it be diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and carbuncles.”
Who acts: you, cargo · What happens: let, be · To what, where: diamonds
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cargo), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 cargo | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cargo | det |
| 4 | cargo | cargo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 let | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cargo | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 diamonds | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 diamonds | cop |
| 9 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 let | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rubies | punct |
| 11 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 diamonds | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 emeralds | punct |
| 13 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 diamonds | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carbuncles | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carbuncles | cc |
| 16 | carbuncles | carbuncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 diamonds | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | as the cargo | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | cargo | diamonds and rubies and emeralds and carbuncles | tree rules |
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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