The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 290
Let someone find the plum-seller at once and bring him to me!
Who acts: you, someone · What happens: let, find, bring · To what, where: someone, plum seller, John, me
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, someone), 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 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seller | det |
| 5 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seller | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 plum | punct |
| 7 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 find | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | someone not said here | the plum seller | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent seller=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | John | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination |
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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