The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 230

Don’t let us tell him, but if you have a little basket give it to me.’

Who acts: you, us · What happens: not let, tell, have, give · To what, where: us, Frisk, little basket, basket, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
2	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 give	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 give	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 basket	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 basket	amod
14	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not let	imperative · do-support	you not said here	us		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	us not said here		Frisk	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a little basket		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
4	give	infinitive	us not said here	basket	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient

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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