The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 55

‘I will go to the fig-tree,’ he said to himself, ‘to see whether he is alive or dead.’

Who acts: I, brother · What happens: go, say, see, be · To what, where: fig tree, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, brother), 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	to	to	ADP	_	9 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
7	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fig	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 alive	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 alive	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 alive	cop
23	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 see	ccomp
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 dead	cc
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 alive	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	future	I		the fig tree		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	brother	brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	see	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	brother			alive property	tree rules
5	be		brother not said here				tree rules

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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