The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 244

‘You will have to let me have your night-gown too,’ he said, ‘for I begin to see that the sheet won’t be enough.’

Who acts: You, me, father, I, sheet · What happens: have, let, say, begin, see, not be · To what, where: me, night gown · Speech: someone speaks here

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, father, I), 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 have	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 gown	nmod:poss
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gown	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
12	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
13	too	too	ADV	_	8 have	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begin	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 begin	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 begin	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 begin	nsubj
22	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begin	xcomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 enough	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sheet	det
27	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 enough	nsubj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 enough	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 enough	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 enough	cop
31	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 see	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	future	You			tree rules
2	let	to-infinitive	You not said here	me		tree rules
3	have	infinitive	me not said here	your night gown		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	begin	present	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	see	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	not is	future	the sheet		enough property	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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