The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 191

Let me have a drop!’ screamed all the twelve at once.

Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, have, scream · To what, where: me, drop, twelve

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, me), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drop	det
5	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 screamed	punct
8	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 twelve	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 twelve	det
11	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 screamed	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 screamed	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me	tree rules
2	have	infinitive	me not said here	a drop	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Patient
3	scream speech: express	past		all twelve	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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