The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 11

At last he thought he had better tell the king the whole story, and let him decide the question.

Who acts: dog · What happens: think, have, tell, let, decide · To what, where: last, whole story, king, dog, question · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 had	xcomp
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 story	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 story	amod
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 question	det
20	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 decide	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	dog			last		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	dog				good property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	dog not said here	the whole story	the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient story=Topic
4	let	infinitive	dog not said here	dog				tree rules
5	decide	infinitive	dog not said here	the question				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent question=Topic

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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