The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 29
‘Never mind, let us make haste and get the wedding over before anything else is lost.’
Who acts: you, us · What happens: not mind, let, make, get over, lose · To what, where: us, haste, wedding, anything
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), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 get | cc |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wedding | det |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 get | compound:prt |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 lost | mark |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 anything | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux:pass |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 get | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | us not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 4 | get over | infinitive | us not said here | the wedding | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wedding=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | lose | present · passive | anything | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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