The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 48

‘I am told that a great treasure lies under that stone; let us see if we can lift it.’

Who acts: great treasure, us, we · What happens: tell, lie, let, see, lift · To what, where: I, stone, us, treasure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great treasure, 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 told	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lies	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 treasure	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 treasure	amod
8	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	nsubj
9	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	advcl
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 stone	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 stone	det
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 lift	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 lift	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lift	aux
20	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lift	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		I		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie	present	a great treasure		that stone	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location
3	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
4	see	infinitive	us not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	lift a condition, not said to happen	can	we	treasure		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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