The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 126

'You can't expect such luck twice,' she said; and the girl sat down and slid over the edge.

Who acts: You, ogress, girl · What happens: not expect, say, sit down, slide · To what, where: such luck, edge · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, ogress, girl), 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 expect	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 expect	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 expect	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 expect	advmod
5	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 luck	amod
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 expect	obj
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 expect	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 expect	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 expect	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sat	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sat	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 slid	cc
20	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sat	conj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 edge	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 edge	det
23	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slid	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not expect	can	You	such luck		twice property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	ogress				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit down	past	the girl				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	slide	past	the girl not said here		the edge		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over edge=Trajectory

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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