The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 49
‘Let us set out at once then,’ replied the Prince severely, ‘or else really I shall have to leave you where you are.
Who acts: you, us, I · What happens: let, set out, reply, have, leave, be · To what, where: us, Prince, you
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. 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, I), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 11 replied | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ‘ | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | SYM | ExtPos=ADP | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 have | advmod |
| 19 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 have | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 leave | mark |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 have | xcomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 leave | obj |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 leave | advcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 where | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 where | cop |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | us not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | you not said here | the Prince | severely property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | |||
| 4 | have | shall | I | else property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | you | where property | 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 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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