The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 147
‘Oh! let the poor creature loose in our bit of fenced-in pasture, and don’t let it stand there starving at our very door.
Who acts: you, creature · What happens: let, fence, not let, stand, starve · To what, where: poor creature, creature, door
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, creature), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creature | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obj |
| 8 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creature | amod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bit | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bit | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loose | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pasture | case |
| 13 | fenced | fence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pasture | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 pasture | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pasture | case |
| 16 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bit | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 let | advmod |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 stand | advmod |
| 25 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 stand | advcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 door | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 door | nmod:poss |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 door | advmod |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 starving | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | the poor creature | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fence | participle | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not let | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | creature | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | infinitive | creature not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | starve | gerund | creature not said here | our door | tree rules |
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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