The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 106

‘I’ll go and see the queen about it; she’s good at devising plans.’

Who acts: I, One · What happens: go, see, be, devise · To what, where: queen, plans

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, One), 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 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 queen	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 good	nsubj
13	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	parataxis
15	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 devising	mark
16	devising	devise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 good	advcl
17	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 devising	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	future	I			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	infinitive	I not said here	the queen	about hand	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus
3	is	present	One		good property	tree rules
4	devise	gerund	One not said here	plans		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=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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