The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 14
‘Let us be quick and run away, for we shall never have a better chance than this.’
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, be, run away, not have · To what, where: us, better chance
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. 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 | _ | 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 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quick | cop |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 run | cc |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 run | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 have | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 chance | det |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 chance | amod |
| 17 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 chance | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 2 Let | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | us not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run away | present | us not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not have | shall | we | a better chance | than this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=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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