The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 75

‘What is this that you are standing fighting about for ever and ever?’ said he to the brothers; ‘let me make a trial of these things, and then I will judge between you.’

Who acts: you, this, me, I · What happens: stand, fight, be, let, make, judge · To what, where: me, trial, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, me, I), 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 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 said	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	cop
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 said	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 standing	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 standing	aux
8	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
9	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 standing	advcl
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 fighting	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 ever	case
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 fighting	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ever	cc
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 ever	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 standing	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 standing	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 brothers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brothers	det
21	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 trial	det
28	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 things	case
30	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 things	det
31	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 trial	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 judge	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 judge	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 judge	advmod
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 judge	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 judge	aux
37	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	conj
38	between	between	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 judge	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present · progressive	you				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fight	gerund	you not said here			about property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be speech: assert	present	this			to the brothers; say property	tree rules
4	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
5	make	infinitive	me not said here	a trial of this things			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product
6	judge	future	I		then	between you	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
7	try			this things			nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient

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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