The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 92

“Well, if you only want them for a short time, perhaps I could manage,” answered the asp; “but I can’t do without them for long.”

Who acts: you, asp · What happens: want, manage, answer, not do · To what, where: sticks · 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 (you, asp), 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	_	17 manage	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 if	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 want	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 manage	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 want	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 want	punct
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	17 manage	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 manage	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 manage	aux
17	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answered	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 manage	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 manage	punct
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 asp	det
22	asp	asp	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answered	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 do	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
27	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 do	advmod
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answered	ccomp
30	without	without	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 long	case
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 do	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	sticks = stick	time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
2	manage in a quote	could	the asp = asp			perhaps property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	the asp				tree rules
4	not do in a quote	can	the asp = asp			without sticks = stick	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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