The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 7
‘“Let us arrange an evening’s entertainment.
Who acts: you, us, evening · What happens: let, arrange, entertain · To what, where: us, entertainment
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, evening), 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 | _ | 3 Let | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Let | punct |
| 3 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Let | obj |
| 5 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 evening | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entertainment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 evening | case |
| 9 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrange | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrange in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a evening's entertainment | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entertainment=Product | ||||
| 3 | entertain in a quote | a evening | nom entertainment «act transitive»: poss=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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