The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 57

Let him think over what I say.’

Who acts: you, King, I · What happens: let, think, say · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 think	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	King	tree rules
2	think speech: other	infinitive	King not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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