The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 60

Perhaps I shall get the better of that wolf!’

Who acts: I · What happens: get

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 better	det
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wolf	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 better	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	shall	I					good, perhaps property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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