The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 133
Take this pretty dress and let us see the difference it will make.’
Who acts: you, us, difference · What happens: take, let, see, make · To what, where: dress, us, difference
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. 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, difference), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dress | det |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 dress | advmod |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 let | cc |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 difference | det |
| 10 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 difference | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this dress | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | us not said here | the difference | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | future | difference | the difference not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product |
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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