The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 14

I think the best thing I can do with him is to hang him.’

Who acts: I, best thing · What happens: think, do, be · To what, where: best thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, best thing), 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	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hang	nsubj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hang	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hang	mark
13	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hang	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	can	I	the best thing not said here	with Simon	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
3	is	present	the best thing		hang property	tree rules

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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