The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 120
‘Do let me try,’ said the youth, ‘whether I can do these wonderful things.’
Who acts: me, I · What happens: let, try, say, do · To what, where: me, youth, wonderful things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, I), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | aux |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 things | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive · do-support | me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | infinitive | me not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | can | I | this wonderful things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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