The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 106

I will see what can be done.”

Who acts: I · What happens: see, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 done	obj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 see	ccomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	future	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	can · passive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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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