The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 73

Now I will let you see one of my blows.’

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: let, see, blow · To what, where: you, one

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 (I, you, my), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 let	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 see	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 blows	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 blows	nmod:poss
10	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	let	future	I	you	now	tree rules
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	one of my blows		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	blow		my			nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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