The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 57

They went to fetch Snowflake, and said to Marie: ‘Let her come and dance with us.’

Who acts: woods, Snowflake · What happens: go, fetch, say, let, come, dance · To what, where: Snowflake, Marie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, Snowflake), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
5	Snowflake	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Marie	case
10	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
13	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Let	obj
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Let	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dance	cc
17	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 us	case
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 dance	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	woods = wood				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fetch	to-infinitive	woods = wood not said here	Snowflake			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowflake=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	woods = wood not said here		Marie		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to marie=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	let	infinitive		Snowflake			tree rules
5	come	infinitive	Snowflake not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dance	infinitive	Snowflake not said here			with us	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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