The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 40

‘No, let us stop, and see who and what it is!’ answered Petru, turning his horse round, and coming face to face with his two brothers.

Who acts: us, sound · What happens: let, stop, see, be, answer, turn · To what, where: us, Petru, horse, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, sound), 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	_	4 let	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 let	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 answered	ccomp
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	conj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	9 see	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 who	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 who	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 who	cop
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turning	punct
20	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 answered	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 horse	nmod:poss
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turning	obj
23	round	round	ADV	_	20 turning	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 coming	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 coming	cc
26	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 turning	conj
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 coming	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 face	case
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 coming	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 brothers	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brothers	nmod:poss
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 brothers	nummod
33	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 coming	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
2	stop	infinitive	us not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	sound				tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	past			Petru		tree rules
6	turn	gerund		Petru's horse		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme horse=Result
7	come	gerund		face		to face; with Petru's two brothers	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=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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