The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 81

Indeed, as he is in a great hurry, perhaps it might be as well if I took it round myself.”

Who acts: fox, I · What happens: be · To what, where: great hurry

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, I), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 hurry	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 hurry	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurry	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hurry	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 hurry	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hurry	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hurry	amod
9	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hurry	punct
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 might	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 might	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurry	parataxis
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 took	cop
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	19 took	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 took	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 might	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	obj
21	round	round	ADP	_	22 myself	case
22	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 took	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hurry	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 hurry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fox			a great hurry		indeed property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	I					round myself; take 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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