The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 143
Let us make haste to land, for we must be quite near the city of the King of the Peacocks.’
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, make, land, be · To what, where: us, haste
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 land | mark |
| 6 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 haste | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 city | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 city | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 city | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 city | cop |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 city | advmod |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 city | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Peacocks | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Peacocks | det |
| 21 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 King | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | us not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 3 | land | to-infinitive | us not said here | haste not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | must | we | for the city; of the King of the Peacocks | tree rules |
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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