The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 170
Let me have two or three days to make up my mind, and then you shall do as you like with me.’
Who acts: you, me, my · What happens: let, have, make up, do, like, mind · To what, where: me, mind
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, me, my), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 three | cc |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 two | conj |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 make | compound:prt |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 do | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 like | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 like | nsubj |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 like | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | infinitive | me not said here | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make up | to-infinitive | me not said here | my mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | do | shall | you | then | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | like | present | you | with me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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