The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 124

Let us come in and talk things over a bit.’

Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, come in, talk · To what, where: us, things, bit

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. 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), 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	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 talk	cc
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talk	obj
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 bit	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talk	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us		tree rules
2	come in	infinitive	us not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	talk	infinitive	us not said here	things	a bit	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thing=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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