The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 79

‘I will go and see if I can find some wild fruit for you.’

Who acts: I · What happens: go, see, find · To what, where: wild fruit

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 find	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	ccomp
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 fruit	det
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fruit	amod
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 fruit	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	future	I			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	find a condition, not said to happen	can	I	some wild fruit	for you	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme for you=Beneficiary

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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