The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 101

For as he can't swim he'll drown, and we sha'n't have any more trouble with him!'

Who acts: man, we · What happens: not swim, drown, not have · To what, where: trouble

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	6 swim	mark
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 swim	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swim	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 swim	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 swim	advmod
6	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 drown	csubj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drown	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 drown	aux
9	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
13	sha'	sha'	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 have	advmod
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 drown	conj
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 trouble	det
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 trouble	advmod
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 trouble	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 drown	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 drown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not swim	can	man			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drown	future	man			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not have		we	any trouble	with man	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient

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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