The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 71

I’ll attend to the rest, and in the meantime we had better be off.’

Who acts: I, we · What happens: attend, have · To what, where: meantime

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (I, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 attend	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 attend	aux
3	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 rest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attend	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 meantime	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meantime	det
11	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 attend	conj
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 had	xcomp
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 off	cop
16	off	off	ADP	_	14 better	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 attend	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 attend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attend	future	I					to the rest	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to rest=Theme
2	have	past	we			the meantime		good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «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 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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