The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 109

But in case you should get into mischief in my absence, I think I had better put you to sleep.’

Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: get, think, have, put, sleep, absent · To what, where: mischief, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 think	cc
2	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 get	mark
3	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 in	fixed
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 think	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 mischief	case
8	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 absence	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 absence	nmod:poss
11	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 think	ccomp
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 had	xcomp
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sleep	mark
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 put	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	should	you		mischief	in my absence	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mischief=Destination
2	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	past	I			good property	tree rules
4	put	infinitive	I not said here	you			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal
5	sleep	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	absent		my				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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