The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 43
‘Now that we are the masters, let us take our sister out of that dull tower which she is so tired of.’
Who acts: we, you, us, dull tower · What happens: be, let, take · To what, where: masters, us, sister, dull tower
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 (we, you, us, dull tower), 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 | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 let | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 masters | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 masters | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 masters | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 masters | det |
| 7 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Now | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 tower | det |
| 17 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tower | amod |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tired | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tired | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 tired | advmod |
| 23 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tower | acl:relcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tired | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | we | the masters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | now | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | us not said here | our sister | that dull tower | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sister=Theme out tower=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is | present | that dull tower | tired property | 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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