The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 40

‘My dear, do let me go!’ said Minnikin; ‘I should so like to go down there and amuse myself a little with the other children.’

Who acts: me, Minnikin, I · What happens: let, go, say, like, go down, amuse · To what, where: me, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (me, Minnikin, 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	_	3 dear	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dear	nmod:poss
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dear	parataxis
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dear	conj
12	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 like	advmod
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dear	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 go	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 amuse	cc
24	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 like	conj
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 amuse	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 amuse	obl:unmarked
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 children	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 children	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 children	amod
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 amuse	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive · do-support		me			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	me not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Minnikin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go down not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		there	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	amuse	present	I not said here	myself		with the other children; a little obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer

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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