The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 83

But somehow I have always managed to escape the death which has threatened me.”

Who acts: I · What happens: manage, escape, threaten · To what, where: death

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 managed	cc
2	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	6 managed	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 managed	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 managed	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 managed	advmod
6	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 escape	mark
8	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 managed	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 death	det
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 escape	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 threatened	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 threatened	aux
13	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 death	acl:relcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 threatened	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 managed	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	manage	present · perfect	I		always, somehow property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	escape	to-infinitive	I not said here	the death		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location
3	threaten	present · perfect · passive		the death		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result

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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