The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 49
‘Make haste, and let us get away from this ugly tower, and very soon the King will arrange a grand marriage for you.’
Who acts: you, us, King · What happens: make, let, get away, arrange · To what, where: haste, us, ugly tower, grand marriage
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, King), 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 | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Make | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Make | conj |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 tower | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 tower | det |
| 12 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tower | amod |
| 13 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arrange | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 arrange | cc |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 arrange | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 arrange | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 arrange | aux |
| 21 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Make | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 marriage | det |
| 23 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 marriage | amod |
| 24 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrange | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 arrange | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get away | infinitive | us not said here | this ugly tower | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tower=Source | |||
| 4 | arrange | future | the King | a grand marriage | for you; soon property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent marriage=Product for you=Beneficiary |
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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