The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 136

‘I could manage very well alone with three, but if there were more, I might not have time to kill them all before they ran away.’

Who acts: I, more, Jonas · What happens: manage, be, not have, kill, run away · To what, where: Jonas

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, more, Jonas), 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	_	4 manage	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 manage	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 manage	aux
4	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 manage	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 manage	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 three	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 manage	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 were	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 have	advcl
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 were	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 manage	conj
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 kill	mark
23	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kill	obj
25	all	all	ADV	_	28 ran	advmod
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 ran	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ran	nsubj
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kill	advcl
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 ran	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	could	I				with three; alone, well property	vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with three=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	more		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not have	might	I			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	kill	to-infinitive	I not said here	Jonas = jona				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	run away	past	Jonas = jona				all, away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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