The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 6
“Can’t we manage to get past by the top?” asked one.
Who acts: we · What happens: not manage, not get past, ask · To what, where: one · 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), 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 | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 2 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 manage | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 manage | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 manage | nsubj |
| 5 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 manage | xcomp |
| 8 | past | past | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 manage | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 manage | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not manage in a quote | can | we | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not get past in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | by the top; past property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | one | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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