The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 68
I can’t and won’t let you out.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not let out · To what, where: you
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 let | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 let | advmod |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 let | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let out | can · future | I | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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