The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 22

‘Let us see first what is in the other casket before we begin to be angry,’ thought the Emperor, and there came out the nightingale.

Who acts: us, we · What happens: let, see, be, begin, think, come out · To what, where: us, other casket, Emperor, nightingale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, we), 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	VerbForm=Inf	20 thought	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 see	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 casket	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 casket	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 casket	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 casket	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 casket	amod
11	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	ccomp
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 begin	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 begin	nsubj
14	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 angry	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 angry	cop
17	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 begin	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Emperor	det
22	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 thought	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 came	expl
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	conj
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 nightingale	det
29	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
2	see	infinitive	us not said here			first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present			the other casket		tree rules
4	begin	present	we				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is	to-infinitive	we not said here			angry property	tree rules
6	think speech: other	past		the Emperor			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent emperor=Attribute clause=Theme
7	come out	past		the nightingale	there	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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