More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 71

"He's taking a turn for the better at last!" she said to herself; but he was thinking just then that, when next a fairy came to play with him, he might not get off quite so easily as he had done this time.

Who acts: boy, mother · What happens: take, say, think, come, play, not get off · To what, where: turn, mother, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, mother), 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	_	4 taking	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taking	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taking	aux
4	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 turn	det
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 better	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 better	det
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 taking	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 better	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 herself	case
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thinking	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 thinking	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 thinking	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thinking	aux
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
23	just	just	ADV	_	25 that	advmod
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 that	advmod
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 thinking	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 came	mark
28	next	next	ADP	_	30 fairy	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fairy	det
30	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 get	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 play	mark
33	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 came	xcomp
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 play	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 get	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 get	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 get	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 get	advmod
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thinking	ccomp
41	off	off	ADP	_	40 get	compound:prt
42	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 get	advmod
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 easily	advmod
44	easily	easily	ADV	_	40 get	advmod
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 done	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 done	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 done	aux
48	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 easily	advcl
49	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 time	det
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 done	obl:unmarked
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	present · progressive	boy	a turn			for the better	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent turn=Theme for good=Beneficiary
2	say speech: express	past	mother		mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic
3	think speech: other	past · progressive	boy	that				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	come	past	boy not said here				next a fairy	tree rules
5	play	to-infinitive	boy not said here				with boy	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
6	not get off	might	boy				easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	do	past · perfect	boy			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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