The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 124
But again the younger brother interposed: ‘Oh, do let him live!
Who acts: younger brother, brother · What happens: interpose, let, live · To what, where: brother
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, brother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 interposed | cc |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 brother | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 interposed | nsubj |
| 6 | interposed | interpose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 interposed | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 9 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 12 let | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Oh | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | aux |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 interposed | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 interposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interpose speech: other | participle | the younger brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive · do-support | the younger brother not said here | brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | infinitive | brother not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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