The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 40

But just let me look at your paws.

Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, look · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 paws	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 paws	nmod:poss
8	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	me					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	me not said here					at your paws	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at paw=Theme

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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