Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 30

I think I will go back and let the old cook cuff and scold as much as she pleases."

Who acts: I, London · What happens: think, go back, let, scold, please · To what, where: old cook cuff, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, London), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cuff	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cuff	amod
11	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cuff	compound
12	cuff	cuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scold	cc
14	scold	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 scold	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 pleases	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pleases	nsubj
19	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 much	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go back	future	I		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	let	infinitive	I not said here	the old cook cuff	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuff=Theme
4	scold	present	I not said here	much	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
5	please	present	London		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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