The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 2
‘Let me have a peep,’ and Ciccu lifted the lid.
Who acts: you, me, Ciccu · What happens: let, have, lift · To what, where: me, peep, lid
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, Ciccu), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 peep | det |
| 6 | peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lifted | cc |
| 10 | Ciccu | Ciccu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lifted | nsubj |
| 11 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lid | det |
| 13 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lifted | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | infinitive | me not said here | a peep | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peep=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lift | past | Ciccu | the lid | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=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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