The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 55

“The bars are too heavy for me to draw,” said Niels; “if you stoop a little you can quite well come in here.”

Who acts: bars, Niels, you · What happens: be, draw, say, stoop, come in · To what, where: little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bars, Niels, 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	_	6 heavy	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bars	det
3	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heavy	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 heavy	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 draw	mark
10	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Niels	Niels	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 stoop	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 stoop	nsubj
19	stoop	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 come	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 little	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stoop	obl:unmarked
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 quite	fixed
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 come	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the bars			for Niels; heavy property	tree rules
2	draw in a quote	to-infinitive	the bars not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Niels				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stoop a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	a little			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come in in a quote	can	you		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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