The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 80

But few can climb without using their hands at all.

Who acts: few · What happens: climb, use · To what, where: hands, all

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 (few), 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	_	4 climb	cc
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 climb	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 using	mark
6	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 climb	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 using	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 using	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	can	few						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	gerund	few not said here	girls's hands		all			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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