The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 8
Let us make a little snow child, and pretend it is a living one.’
Who acts: you, us, use · What happens: let, make, pretend, be · To what, where: us, little snow child, living one
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 (you, us, use), 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 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 6 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 child | compound |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretend | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pretend | cc |
| 10 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pretend | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | us not said here | a little snow child | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product | ||||
| 3 | pretend | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | use | a living one | 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 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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