The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 96

“Well, we might try that, and then we shall always have our horses,” said Geirald.

Who acts: we, Geirald · What happens: try, have, say · To what, where: that, horses · 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, Geirald), 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 try	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 try	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 try	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 try	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 have	advmod
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 have	advmod
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	parataxis
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horses	nmod:poss
16	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try in a quote	might	we	that			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	have in a quote	shall	we	our horses	then	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Geirald				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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