The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 94

‘And how did you manage to catch him?’ asked the giant.

Who acts: you · What happens: manage, catch, ask · To what, where: Peronnik, giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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), 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	_	6 manage	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 manage	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 manage	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 manage	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 manage	nsubj
6	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 catch	mark
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 manage	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 catch	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 asked	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	manage	past · do-support	you		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	catch	to-infinitive	you not said here	Peronnik	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past		the giant	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient clause=Topic

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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