The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 43

‘Ah!’ said he to sister, ‘do let me go off to the hunt!

Who acts: King, me · What happens: say, let, go off · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, me), 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 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sister	mark
8	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
12	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 sister	appos
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 go	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 hunt	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hunt	det
18	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive · do-support		me		tree rules
3	go off	infinitive	me not said here		to the hunt	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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