The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 83

'Let me think over it again then, O king,' said Gopani-Kufa, 'and to-morrow I will let you know if I change my mind.'

Who acts: me, Gopani, I, you, my · What happens: let, think, say, know, change, mind · To what, where: me, choice, you, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (me, Gopani, I, you), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 think	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 king	punct
10	O	o	INTJ	_	11 king	discourse
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
13	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Kufa	punct
17	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Gopani	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 morrow	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 to	punct
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obl
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 change	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 change	nsubj
31	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 know	ccomp
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mind	nmod:poss
33	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 change	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		me			king obl	tree rules
2	think speech: other	infinitive	me not said here		choice	again; then		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Gopani					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let	future	I	you			to morrow	tree rules
5	know	infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	change a condition, not said to happen	present	I	my mind				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	mind		my					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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