The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 52

I must just go and see what it is.’

Who acts: I, net · What happens: go, see, be

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, net), 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	4 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 see	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 what	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	cop
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
11	’	'	SYM	_	4 go	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	go	must	I	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	I not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	net	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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