The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 94

“Why, you could not walk a yard in them!”

Who acts: you · What happens: not walk · To what, where: yard

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), 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	_	7 walk	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 walk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 walk	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 walk	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 walk	advmod
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 yard	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walk	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 walk	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk in a quote	could	you	a yard				in shoes = shoe	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent yard=Theme in they=Trajectory

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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