The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 39

“Perhaps,” he said, “I may bring the Princess back with me, so see that everything is in order; let the gold ornaments be arranged and the whole ship decorated.”

Who acts: John, everything, gold ornaments · What happens: say, bring back, see, be, let, arrange · To what, where: Princess, order, gold ornaments, whole ship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, everything, gold ornaments), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bring	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bring	aux
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Princess	det
13	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 bring	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bring	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 bring	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 order	mark
21	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	24 order	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 order	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 order	case
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ornaments	det
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ornaments	compound
29	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 let	obj
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 arranged	aux:pass
31	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 let	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 decorated	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ship	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ship	amod
35	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 decorated	nsubj:pass
36	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 arranged	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	John				perhaps property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring back in a quote	may	John		the Princess		with John	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination
3	see in a quote	infinitive	John not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is in a quote	present	everything			order		tree rules
5	let in a quote	infinitive		the gold ornaments				tree rules
6	arrange in a quote	infinitive · passive	the gold ornaments not said here					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»
7	decorate in a quote	participle · passive		the whole ship				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

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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