The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 116
“We mayn’t be able to kill the giant, but we certainly can’t run away till we have tried,” answered Rosald.
Who acts: We, Rosald · What happens: not be, kill, not run away, try, answer · To what, where: giant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Rosald), 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 | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kill | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 run | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 run | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 run | nsubj |
| 14 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 17 run | advmod |
| 15 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 run | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 run | advmod |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 run | advmod |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 tried | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 tried | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tried | aux |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 run | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 25 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 answered | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | may | We | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | the giant | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not run away in a quote | can | we | away, certainly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try in a quote | present · perfect | we | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | Rosald | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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