The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 97

You must return this evening, when I may be better.’

Who acts: You, I · What happens: return, be

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 return	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 return	aux
3	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 evening	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 return	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 better	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 better	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 better	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 return	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	must	You				evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	may	I					good property	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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