The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 80

I must set off at once; perhaps I may still be in time to save him.’

Who acts: I · What happens: set off, be, save · To what, where: brother

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux
3	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 set	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	14 time	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 time	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 time	aux
11	still	still	ADV	_	14 time	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 time	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 time	case
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl:unmarked
15	to	to	PART	_	16 save	mark
16	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 time	acl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 save	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set off	must	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	may	I		in time; still	perhaps property	tree rules
3	save	to-infinitive	I not said here	brother			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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