The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 55

They were wondering sadly what they should do when Ciccu said, ‘Come with me to the inn and let us have something to eat.’

Who acts: brothers, Ciccu, us · What happens: wonder, do, say, come, let, have · To what, where: inn, us, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, Ciccu, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wondering	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wondering	aux
3	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wondering	ccomp
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 said	advmod
10	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Come	punct
14	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 Come	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 inn	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 inn	det
19	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Come	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Come	conj
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 have	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 something	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	brothers = brother				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	should	brothers = brother				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Ciccu				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	infinitive			the inn	with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial_Location
5	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
6	have	infinitive	us not said here	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
7	eat	to-infinitive	us not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «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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