The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 44

“Cheer up!” answered the horse, “we will manage to find her.

Who acts: horse, we · What happens: cheer up, answer, manage, find · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, we), 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	_	2 Cheer	punct
2	Cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	ccomp
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Cheer	compound:prt
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Cheer	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cheer	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 manage	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 manage	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 manage	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 manage	aux
13	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 manage	xcomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cheer up in a quote	infinitive			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	answer speech: express	past	the horse		tree rules
3	manage in a quote	future	we		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	wife	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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