Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 52

Let us be kind to the old fellow.

Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, be · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., 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 (you, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 fellow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fellow	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	is	infinitive	us not said here					to the old fellow; kind property	tree rules

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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