The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 18

Let us see who can tell the biggest lie, and the one who lies the best shall have the whole cake.’

Who acts: you, us, one · What happens: let, see, tell, lie, have · To what, where: us, biggest lie, best, whole cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. 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, one), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 tell	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lie	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 lie	amod
9	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lies	nsubj
15	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 best	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 lies	obl
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cake	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cake	amod
22	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us	tree rules
2	see	infinitive	us not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	can		the biggest lie	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient
4	lie	present	the one	the best	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	shall	the one	the whole cake	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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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