The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 60

‘Let us reckon the heads first.

Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, reckon · To what, where: us, heads

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. 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	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heads	det
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reckon	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 reckon	advmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us					tree rules
2	reckon	infinitive	us not said here	the heads				first property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent head=Attribute

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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