Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 9

"I know," said Al-ex-an-der, "that, if you would only give me leave to try, I could manage this horse better than any one else."

Who acts: Al, you · What happens: know, say, give, leave, try, manage · To what, where: Al, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Al, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Al	punct
9	ex	ex	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 der	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 der	punct
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 der	det
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 an	punct
13	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Al	list
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 that	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 Al	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 give	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 give	advmod
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 give	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 try	mark
26	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 leave	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 manage	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 manage	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 manage	aux
30	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 give	conj
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 horse	det
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 manage	obj
33	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 manage	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	36 one	case
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 better	obl
37	else	else	ADV	_	36 one	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Al				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	Al				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	you		Al		tree rules
4	leave in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
5	try in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	manage in a quote	could	Al	this horse		well property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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