The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 6

Next morning when they woke they said, ‘Let us go and amuse ourselves by jumping over the ditch,’ and every time they cleared it with a bound.

Who acts: nyamatsanes, us · What happens: wake, say, let, go, amuse, jump · To what, where: us, ourselves, ditch · 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 (nyamatsanes, us), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 woke	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 woke	nsubj
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
10	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Let	obj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Let	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 amuse	cc
14	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
15	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 amuse	obj
16	by	by	SCONJ	_	17 jumping	mark
17	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 amuse	advcl
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 ditch	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ditch	det
20	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jumping	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 Let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cleared	cc
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cleared	obl:unmarked
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cleared	nsubj
27	cleared	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cleared	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 bound	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bound	det
31	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cleared	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane			morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	us not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	amuse	infinitive	us not said here	ourselves				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer
6	jump	gerund	us not said here		the ditch			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ditch=Trajectory
7	clear	past	nyamatsanes = nyamatsane	ditch		time	with a bound	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product with bound=Material

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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