The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 148

‘Let us go at once and bring her here.’

Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, go, bring · To what, where: us, Princess

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), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 go	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bring	cc
8	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bring	obj
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 bring	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	us not said here				vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
3	bring	infinitive	you not said here		Princess	here	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination

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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