Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 36

"Will you let me try to make one?" asked Anto-nio "Perhaps I can make something that will do."

Who acts: you, Anto nio · What happens: let, try, make, ask, do · To what, where: Anto nio, one, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Anto nio), 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	_	4 let	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 make	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Anto	Anto	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 nio	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 nio	punct
15	nio	nio	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
17	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	20 make	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 make	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 nio	parataxis
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 make	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 do	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 something	acl:relcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	future	you	Anto nio = nio		tree rules
2	try in a quote	infinitive	Anto nio = nio not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Anto nio = nio not said here	one		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product
4	ask speech: ask	past	Anto nio			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make in a quote	can	Anto nio = nio	something	perhaps property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Product
6	do in a quote	future				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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