The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 47

‘There must be some trick about this; I had better take the sand.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, have, take · To what, where: trick, sand

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	6 trick	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 trick	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 trick	det
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 trick	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	conj
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 had	xcomp
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sand	det
15	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	imperative	you not said here	some trick	about this	tree rules
2	have	past	I		good property	tree rules
3	take	infinitive	I not said here	the sand		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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