The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 79

“I am going to get rid of Thakane.”

Who acts: man · What happens: go, get

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	4 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Thakane	case
9	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rid	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	the man = man						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	to-infinitive	the man = man not said here					rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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