The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 94
‘Look,’ cried he, ‘let us try our luck there.’
Who acts: dwarf, us · What happens: look, cry, let, try · To what, where: us, luck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (dwarf, us), 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 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | ccomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 luck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 try | obj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 try | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | dwarf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | try | infinitive | us not said here | our luck | there | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
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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