The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 41

Checking her horse, she asked whether it would be better to take it or let it lie.

Who acts: leave, it, curl · What happens: check, ask, be, take, let, lie · To what, where: horse, curl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leave, it, curl), 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	Checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asked	advcl
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horse	nmod:poss
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Checking	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Checking	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 better	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 better	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 asked	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 take	mark
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 better	csubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 take	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	check	gerund	leave not said here	leave's horse		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	leave			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	it		good property	tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive		curl		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	let	infinitive		curl		tree rules
6	lie	infinitive	curl not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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