The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 155

Now let us look back a moment, and see what had been going on in Elsa’s native village all these years, and how her double had fared.

Who acts: you, us, Elsa · What happens: let, look back, see, go on, fare, double · To what, where: us, native village, double · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. 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, Elsa), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 look	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 going	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 see	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 going	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 village	case
17	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 village	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Elsa	case
19	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 village	amod
20	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 years	det:predet
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 years	det
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 going	obl:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fared	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fared	cc
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 fared	advmod
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 double	nmod:poss
28	double	double	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fared	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fared	aux
30	fared	fare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 let	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us		now	tree rules
2	look back	infinitive	us not said here			moment	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go on	past · perfect · progressive			Elsa's native village	year	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in village=Location
5	fare	past · perfect · passive		Elsa's double			tree rules
6	double		Elsa				nom double «act intransitive»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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