The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 26

‘I had better go and ask his advice; perhaps he will know what to do to prevent the misfortunes which the fairies foretold.’

Who acts: I, hermit, misfortunes · What happens: have, go, ask, know, do, prevent · To what, where: advice, fairies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hermit, misfortunes), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 had	xcomp
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ask	cc
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 advice	nmod:poss
9	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 know	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 prevent	mark
19	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 do	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 misfortunes	det
21	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fairies	nsubj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 fairies	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fairies	det
24	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 prevent	obj
25	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 fairies	acl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	ask speech: ask	infinitive	I not said here	hermit's advice		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
4	know	future	hermit		perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	to-infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	prevent	to-infinitive				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
7	fairy		the misfortunes			tree rules
8	foretell	participle		the fairies not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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