The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 18

I can bear it no longer, and if I do not get a letter from him soon I shall leave this horrible place and go back to see what is the matter.

Who acts: I · What happens: bear, not get, leave, go back, see, be · To what, where: period, letter, horrible place, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bear	aux
3	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bear	obj
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 bear	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 leave	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 get	advmod
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 leave	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 letter	det
15	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 letter	nmod
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 get	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 leave	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 leave	aux
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bear	parataxis
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 place	det
23	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 place	amod
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leave	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 leave	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	advcl
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 matter	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 matter	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 see	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	can	I	period	long property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not get a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	I	a letter	from king; soon property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from he=Source
3	leave	shall	I	this horrible place		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	go back	infinitive	I not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	see	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	present		the matter		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 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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