The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 112

'If that is all, dry your eyes,' said the cats; 'we will manage it for you.'

Who acts: all, we · What happens: dry, say, manage · To what, where: eyes, cats, cloth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, 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	_	7 dry	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 all	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 all	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 all	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dry	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
7	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dry	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dry	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cats	det
14	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 manage	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 manage	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 manage	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 manage	aux
19	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dry	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 manage	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 manage	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dry	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dry	infinitive	all	your eyes		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	all not said here	the cats		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
3	manage	future	we	cloth	for you	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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