The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 70
I had better go and find something to do to amuse myself.”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, go, find, do, amuse · To what, where: something, myself
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 had | xcomp |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 find | cc |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 something | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 amuse | mark |
| 11 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | advcl |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 amuse | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | I not said here | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | something not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | amuse | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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