The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 11

‘We cannot spend our lives thus,’ said Manawyddan at last, ‘let us go into England and learn some trade by which we may live.’

Who acts: We, Manawyddan, us · What happens: not spend, say, let, go, learn, live · To what, where: lives, last, us, England, trade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Manawyddan, us), 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	_	5 spend	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 spend	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spend	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 spend	advmod
5	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lives	nmod:poss
7	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spend	obj
8	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 spend	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spend	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 spend	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
17	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 let	obj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	xcomp
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 England	case
21	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 learn	cc
23	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 trade	det
25	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 learn	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 live	obl
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 live	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 live	aux
30	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 trade	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not spend	can	We	our lives		thus property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset
2	say speech: assert	past	Manawyddan		last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	us not said here		England		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into england=Initial_Location
5	learn	infinitive	us not said here	some trade			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Topic
6	live	may	we			by some trade	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location

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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