The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 74

“Let us try,” said he in a careless manner, “which of us can lie buried in the ground during seven years.”

Who acts: us, man · What happens: let, try, say, lie, bury · To what, where: us, careless manner, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, man), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 manner	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 manner	det
11	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 manner	amod
12	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lie	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 lie	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lie	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 which	obl
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 lie	aux
19	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
20	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lie	xcomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 buried	obl
24	during	during	ADP	_	26 years	case
25	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 buried	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lie	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
2	try in a quote	infinitive	us not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	man		a careless manner		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lie in a quote	can					tree rules
5	bury in a quote	participle			the ground	year	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ground=Destination

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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