Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 80

"And let me go likewise!" said their playfellow Thasus, who came running to join them.

Who acts: playfellow · What happens: let, go, say, come, run, join · To what, where: playfellow, perils · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (playfellow), 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	_	3 let	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 playfellow	nmod:poss
11	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 playfellow	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 playfellow	acl:relcl
16	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 join	mark
18	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 running	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 join	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		perils's playfellow = playfellow		tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive	perils's playfellow = playfellow not said here		likewise property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	perils's playfellow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	past	perils's playfellow			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	gerund	perils's playfellow not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	join	to-infinitive	perils's playfellow not said here	perils = peril		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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