The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 39

Then I began to consider how I could best collect some, to take home with me.

Who acts: I · What happens: begin, consider, collect, take · To what, where: some

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 consider	mark
5	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 collect	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 collect	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 collect	aux
9	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 collect	advmod
10	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 consider	ccomp
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 collect	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 collect	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 take	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 take	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	I		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	consider	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	collect	could	I	some		well property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
4	take	to-infinitive	I not said here			with me; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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