The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 82

You could cut a dozen sticks from the wood each just as good as that!” said the young man.

Who acts: You, dozen, young man · What happens: cut, stick, say · To what, where: wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, dozen, young man), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	aux
3	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dozen	det
5	dozen	dozen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sticks	nsubj
6	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sticks	obl
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 good	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 good	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wood	acl:relcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 good	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	cut	could	You		tree rules
2	stick	present	a dozen	the wood	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the young man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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