English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 52

So one fine morning, fair and clear, she said to her sister, “Let us go and see our father's boats come in at the bonny mill-stream of Binnorie.”

Who acts: William, us, boats · What happens: say, let, go, see, come in · To what, where: sister, us, bonny mill stream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William, us, boats), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 fair	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 morning	nummod
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fair	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clear	cc
8	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fair	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fair	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 sister	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sister	nmod:poss
14	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Let	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Let	punct
17	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 Let	obj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 Let	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 boats	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 father	case
25	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	nsubj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 see	ccomp
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	33 stream	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stream	det
30	bonny	bonny	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stream	compound
31	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stream	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 mill	punct
33	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Binnorie	case
35	Binnorie	Binnorie	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 stream	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	William		William's sister		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
3	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come in in a quote	present	our father's boats			the bonny mill stream of Binnorie	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stream=Location

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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