English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 9

“Let us stop for a little while,” said they, “and we will go away before he comes.”

Who acts: us, man, we, he · What happens: let, stop, say, go away, come · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, man, we, he), 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	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 while	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 while	amod
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 comes	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 comes	nsubj
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 go	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
2	stop in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		while		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go away in a quote	future	we			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come in a quote	present	he				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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