The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 89

“No, we can’t afford that,” said the old people; “it will be too dear for the like of us.”

Who acts: we, old people, house · What happens: not afford, say, be · To what, where: that · 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 (we, old people, house), 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	_	7 afford	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 afford	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 afford	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 afford	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 afford	advmod
7	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 afford	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 afford	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 afford	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 dear	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 dear	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dear	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dear	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 dear	cop
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 dear	advmod
21	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 the	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dear	obl
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 us	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 us	case
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 the	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not afford in a quote	can	we	that		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	future	house		for the; dear property	tree rules

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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