The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 108

‘Well, then,’ says the knight, ‘let us hear it.’

Who acts: us · What happens: say, let, hear · To what, where: knight, us, passage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. 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	_	7 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 says	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knight	det
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hear	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the knight	then	tree rules
2	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
3	hear	infinitive	us not said here	passage		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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