The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 126
‘Oh, no, let them go on,’ said the emperor.
Who acts: empresses · What happens: let, go on, say · To what, where: empresses, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (empresses), 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 | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 emperor | det |
| 14 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | empresses = empress | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go on | infinitive | empresses = empress not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the emperor | tree rules |
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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