The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 39

Who is there I can find for her to talk to?”

Who acts: Doubtless · What happens: be, find, talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Doubtless), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 find	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 find	expl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 talk	mark
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 find	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 talk	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	is a	present			tree rules
2	find	can		there	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	talk	to-infinitive	Doubtless		vn talk-37.5 «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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