The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 98

Then this evening I will try for myself.’

Who acts: I · What happens: try

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 try	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	obl:unmarked
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 try	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 myself	case
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 try	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	future	I				then; evening	for myself	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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