The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 62

But the king could not tell her; and only managed to gasp out: 'My shoe! my shoe!'

Who acts: king · What happens: not tell, manage, gasp out · To what, where: shoe, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 managed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 managed	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 managed	advmod
11	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 gasp	mark
13	gasp	gasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 managed	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 gasp	compound:prt
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 shoe	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 shoe	punct
17	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoe	nmod:poss
18	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoe	nmod:poss
21	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	the king	My shoe	princess	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient shoe=Topic
2	manage	past	the king not said here			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	gasp out	to-infinitive	the king not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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