The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 106

He said to him, as if the idea had just come into his head, ‘Grandfather, let us build a hut,’ and Big Lion consented.

Who acts: hare, us, Big Lion · What happens: say, come, let, build, consent · To what, where: Big, idea, head, us, hut · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, us, Big Lion), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 come	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 idea	det
9	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 head	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Grandfather	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Grandfather	punct
18	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 head	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hut	det
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 build	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 consented	cc
28	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Lion	compound
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 consented	nsubj
30	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	hare		Big		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the idea		hare's head and Grandfather	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
4	build	infinitive	us not said here	a hut			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product
5	consent	past	Big Lion				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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