The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 70

‘We had better turn back to the town, and then you can fetch it.’

Who acts: We, you · What happens: have, turn back, fetch · To what, where: town

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	xcomp
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 better	csubj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 town	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fetch	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fetch	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 fetch	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 fetch	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fetch	aux
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fetch	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We				good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	turn back	infinitive			the town			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to town=Destination
3	fetch	can	you	town		then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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