The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 41

“But how do you suppose we can manage to live till summer comes round again?”

Who acts: you, we, summer · What happens: suppose, manage, live, come round · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, summer), 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 suppose	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 suppose	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 suppose	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 suppose	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 suppose	nsubj
6	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 manage	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	aux
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 suppose	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 live	mark
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 manage	xcomp
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 comes	mark
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 live	advcl
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 comes	advmod
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 comes	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 suppose	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	manage in a quote	can	we			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	live in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come round in a quote	present	summer	again	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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