The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 46

I do not like to go to him again; he might take it amiss.’

Who acts: I, flounder · What happens: not like, go, take · To what, where: flounder, cottage

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, flounder), 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	4 like	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 take	aux
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 take	obj
15	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 take	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		flounder	again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
3	take	might	flounder	cottage			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme amiss=Destination

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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