The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 185
‘Don’t let us waste time; we must go and harangue the people.’
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: not let, waste, go, harangue · To what, where: us, people
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, we), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 let | advmod |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waste | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 harangue | cc |
| 13 | harangue | harangue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 harangue | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | imperative · do-support | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | waste | infinitive | us not said here | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | must | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | harangue | infinitive | we not said here | the people | 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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