The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 136

‘What must come will come,’ said Petru at length; ‘at any rate I shall see the Welwa of the woods, what she is like, and which way I had best fight her.

Who acts: Petru, I, way · What happens: come, say, see, have · To what, where: length, Welwa, rate, best fight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, I, way), 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 come	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 come	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 length	case
12	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 rate	case
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rate	det
17	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Welwa	det
22	Welwa	Welwa	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 woods	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woods	det
25	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Welwa	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 what	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 Welwa	acl:relcl
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 like	cop
30	like	like	INTJ	_	27 what	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
33	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	nsubj
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	advcl
37	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 fight	amod
38	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	must					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	future					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Petru		length		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	shall	I	the Welwa of the woods	any rate		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer welwa=Stimulus
5	have	past	which way	best fight		affair obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient

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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