The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 76

Let us kill him, and then we can say to the king that we slew the dragon and saved the princess, and one of us shall marry her.’

Who acts: you, us, we, one · What happens: let, kill, say, slay, save, marry · To what, where: us, water, king, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). 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, 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	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kill	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 say	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 say	advmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 slew	obj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 slew	nsubj
16	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 king	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dragon	det
18	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slew	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saved	cc
20	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 slew	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saved	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 marry	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 marry	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 marry	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 us	case
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 one	nmod
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 marry	aux
29	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 say	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 marry	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			tree rules
2	kill	infinitive	us not said here	water			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	can	we		the king	then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
4	slay	past	we	the king			tree rules
5	save	past	we not said here	the princess			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
6	marry	shall	one of us	princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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