The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 8
‘Let down, let down thy petticoat That lets thy feet be seen.’
Who acts: you, petticoat · What happens: let down, let, see · To what, where: petticoat, feet
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(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, petticoat), 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 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 Let | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 let | compound:prt |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 petticoat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | petticoat | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | obj |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 lets | nsubj |
| 10 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 petticoat | acl:relcl |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lets | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | imperative | you not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | let down | infinitive | you not said here | thy petticoat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petticoat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | present | thy petticoat | thy petticoat not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive · passive | thy feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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