The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 53
‘Come, Petru, let us drink now we have the chance, and then we will set out on our way home.
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: come, let, drink, have, set out · To what, where: Petru, us, chance, way
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 (you, us, we), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Petru | punct |
| 4 | Petru | Petru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 have | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drink | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chance | det |
| 13 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 set | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 set | aux |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Come | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 way | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 way | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | Petru | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | us not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | we | the chance | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | |||
| 5 | set out | future | we | our way | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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