The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 25
“Whatever it is, I will manage to get it for you.”
Who acts: voice, girl · What happens: be, manage, get · To what, where: Whatever, voice
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, girl), 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 | _ | 8 manage | punct |
| 2 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 manage | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Whatever | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Whatever | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 manage | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 manage | aux |
| 8 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 manage | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 manage | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | voice | Whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | manage in a quote | future | the girl = girl | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | the girl = girl not said here | voice | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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