The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 93

'You could never carry anything so heavy,' answered the men, 'and now you are ill besides.'

Who acts: You · What happens: not carry, answer, be · To what, where: anything, men, ill besides · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	5 carry	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 carry	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 carry	advmod
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 carry	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 heavy	advmod
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carry	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 men	det
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 besides	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 besides	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 besides	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 besides	cop
20	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 besides	amod
21	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 answered	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 besides	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 besides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	could	You	anything			heavy property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			the men			tree rules
3	is a	present	you	ill besides		now		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 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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