The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 122
‘Come and let us see if we can get hold of it.’
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: come, let, see, get, hold · To what, where: us, hold, kitchen
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 let | cc |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 see | ccomp |
| 11 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hold | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get a condition, not said to happen | can | we | hold of kitchen | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hold | kitchen | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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