The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 40

I had better take it myself to some great rich man, and see what it will do for me.’

Who acts: I, grass · What happens: have, take, see, do · To what, where: grass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grass), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 had	xcomp
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 take	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 man	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 man	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 see	cc
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 do	obj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 see	ccomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	I		good property	tree rules
2	take	infinitive	I not said here	grass	to some great rich man	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme myself=Destination
3	see	infinitive	I not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	future	grass		for me	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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