English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 5

Mr. Vinegar then said: “My dear, let us see what can be done.

Who acts: Vinegar, us · What happens: say, let, see, do · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vinegar, 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Vinegar	nmod:desc
2	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 dear	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 dear	punct
7	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dear	nmod:poss
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 dear	parataxis
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 done	obj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 done	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 done	aux:pass
16	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 see	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Vinegar Mr.		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
3	see in a quote	infinitive	us not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do in a quote	can · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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