Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 12

If you can manage to acquire these three, you will be a poet, and the sausage-skewer soup will be quite easy to you.'

Who acts: you, skewer soup · What happens: manage, acquire, be · To what, where: three, poet, you

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, skewer soup), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 manage	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 manage	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 manage	aux
4	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 acquire	mark
6	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 manage	xcomp
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 three	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 acquire	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poet	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 poet	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 poet	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 poet	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 poet	det
14	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 three	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 easy	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 easy	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 soup	det
18	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skewer	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sausage	punct
20	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 soup	compound
21	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 easy	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 easy	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 easy	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 easy	advmod
25	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manage	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 easy	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	manage	can	you				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	acquire	to-infinitive	you not said here	this three and a poet			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset three=Theme
3	is a	future	you	a poet			tree rules
4	is	future	the skewer soup		you	easy 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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