Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 35

But let them go past to the bosky glade.

Who acts: you, Deirdre · What happens: let, go past · To what, where: Deirdre, bosky glade

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Deirdre), 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	_	2 let	cc
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	past	past	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 glade	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 glade	det
8	bosky	bosky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 glade	amod
9	glade	glade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	Deirdre					tree rules
2	go past	infinitive	Deirdre not said here			the bosky glade		past property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glade=Initial_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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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