The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 24

'Perhaps she may have come to her senses by to-morrow,' said he to himself; 'and, anyhow, if I am going to send her back to her father, it might be better if we did not meet in the meantime!

Who acts: ceremonial, I, distance, we · What happens: come, say, go, send back, be, not meet · To what, where: senses, ceremonial, father, meantime · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceremonial, I, distance, we), 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	_	6 come	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 senses	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 senses	nmod:poss
9	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 morrow	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 morrow	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 to	punct
13	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 himself	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 himself	case
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 said	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 going	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	anyhow	anyhow	INTJ	_	29 going	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 anyhow	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 going	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 going	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 come	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 send	mark
31	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 going	xcomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 send	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	31 send	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 father	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 send	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 better	punct
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 better	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 better	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 better	cop
41	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 going	parataxis
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 meet	mark
43	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 meet	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 meet	aux
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 meet	advmod
46	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 better	advcl
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 meantime	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 meantime	det
49	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 meet	obl
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	may · perfect	ceremonial			ceremonial's senses	by morrow; perhaps property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sens=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	ceremonial not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send back	to-infinitive	I not said here	ceremonial	ceremonial's father			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to father=Destination
5	is	might	distance				good property	tree rules
6	not meet a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	we			the meantime		vn meet-36.3-1 «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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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