The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 21

However, it could do no harm, if he was to go a little way; he could always manage to get back somehow.

Who acts: tree, cat · What happens: do, be, manage, get back · To what, where: harm

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, cat), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 harm	det
7	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 go	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl:unmarked
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 manage	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 manage	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 manage	aux
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 manage	advmod
21	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 do	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 manage	xcomp
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
25	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	23 get	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	could	tree	no harm	however property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	cat		a little way obl:unmarked; go property	tree rules
3	manage	could	cat		always property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get back	to-infinitive	cat not said here		somehow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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