The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 37
“Now, my little pigmy, let me see you do that.”
Who acts: little pigmy, play, you · What happens: let, see, do · To what, where: play, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little pigmy, play, you), 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 | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 let | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pigmy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pigmy | amod |
| 6 | pigmy | pigmy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pigmy | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | my little pigmy | play | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | play not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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