The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 115

“But how can we manage that?” asked Pivi.

Who acts: we · What happens: manage, ask · To what, where: that, Pivi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. 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	_	6 manage	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 manage	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 manage	advmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 manage	aux
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 manage	nsubj
6	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 manage	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 asked	iobj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage in a quote	can	we	that					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			Pivi				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent pivi=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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