The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 94
I think I had better go to court, and enter into the service of the king.'
Who acts: I · What happens: think, have, go, enter, service · To what, where: court, service, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. 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 | 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 | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | ccomp |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 had | xcomp |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | csubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enter | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 enter | cc |
| 11 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 service | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 service | det |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enter | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 service | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | I | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | enter | infinitive | the service of the king | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into service=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | service | the king | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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