The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 20

‘Let us go home, sisters!’ cries the Prince.

Who acts: us · What happens: let, go, cry · To what, where: us, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cries	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sisters	punct
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Let	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cries	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		us	sisters obl	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	us not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	present		the Prince		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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