The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 56
‘Let us be off after this good-for-nothing Fanfaronade, for with out a doubt he has run away with our Princess.’
Who acts: you, us, Fanfaronade · What happens: let, be, run away · To what, where: us
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, Fanfaronade), 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 off | cop |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 nothing | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 nothing | nsubj |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nothing | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 nothing | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 for | punct |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 Let | obl |
| 13 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 run | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 run | mark |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 doubt | case |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 with | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 doubt | det |
| 19 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Let | parataxis |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 run | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Princess | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Princess | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | 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 | after nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | us not said here | off property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run away | present · perfect | Fanfaronade | with a doubt; with our Princess; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with doubt=Material |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/4/56/