The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 22

When she is seated I shall begin to neigh and kick, and you must say that I have never carried a woman before, and that you had better get up behind so as to be able to manage me.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: seat, begin, neigh, kick, say, not carry · To what, where: princess, woman, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 seated	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seated	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seated	aux:pass
4	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 begin	advcl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 begin	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 begin	aux
7	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 neigh	mark
9	neigh	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begin	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kick	cc
11	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 neigh	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 say	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begin	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 carried	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 carried	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 carried	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 carried	advmod
21	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 say	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obj
24	before	before	ADV	_	21 carried	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 had	xcomp
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begin	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 get	compound:prt
33	behind	behind	ADV	_	31 get	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	38 able	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 able	mark
36	to	to	PART	_	38 able	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	cop
38	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 get	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 manage	mark
40	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	xcomp
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 manage	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seat	present · passive		princess		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
2	begin	shall	I			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	neigh	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kick	infinitive	I not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert	must	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not carry	present · perfect	I	a woman	before property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
7	get up	past	I not said here		behind property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	to-infinitive	I not said here		able property	tree rules
9	manage	to-infinitive	I not said here	me		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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