The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 106

Still, I had better look to it.'

Who acts: I · What happens: have, look · To what, where: chain

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
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	root	root
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 had	xcomp
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 better	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I				still	good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	look	infinitive			chain				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=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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