The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 77

‘Oh yes!’ replied the maiden, ‘but you must let my Roe come too.

Who acts: you, Roe · What happens: reply, let, come · To what, where: Roe

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 (you, Roe), 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 replied	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 replied	discourse
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 replied	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 replied	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Roe	nmod:poss
16	Roe	Roe	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 let	obj
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 come	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past			maiden property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	must	you	my Roe		tree rules
3	come	infinitive	my Roe not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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