The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 87

‘Let the child go, Master,’ said his wife; ‘perhaps we shall eat the dates--or perhaps we shall not--but let him go.’

Who acts: you, child, wife, we · What happens: let, go, say, eat · To what, where: child, dates · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, child, wife, 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Master	punct
7	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 eat	punct
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 eat	advmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 eat	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	aux
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 dates	det
20	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	obj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 shall	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 shall	cc
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	25 shall	advmod
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 shall	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 eat	parataxis
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 shall	advmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 let	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 let	cc
29	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 let	obj
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 let	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	the child	Master obl	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the child not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	child's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	eat	shall	we	the dates	perhaps property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient
5	let	infinitive	you not said here	child		tree rules
6	go	infinitive	child not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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