The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 44
‘Let me see this wreath, my son,’ and Petru held it out to her.
Who acts: you, me, Petru · What happens: let, see, hold out · To what, where: me, wreath, goddess
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, Petru), 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 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wreath | det |
| 6 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wreath | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 13 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 held | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | me not said here | this wreath and my son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wreath=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hold out | past | Petru | wreath | goddess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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