The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 15

‘You see I can very well manage one, but I am not quite accustomed to wolves yet, and he might tear holes in my new trousers.’

Who acts: You, I, Walter · What happens: see, manage, not accustom, tear · To what, where: one, holes, new trousers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (You, I, Walter), 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	_	3 see	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 manage	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 manage	aux
6	very	very	ADV	_	8 manage	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 very	fixed
8	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 manage	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 accustomed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 accustomed	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 accustomed	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 accustomed	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 accustomed	advmod
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 accustomed	advmod
16	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 see	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 wolves	case
18	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 accustomed	obl
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 accustomed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tear	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tear	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tear	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tear	aux
24	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
25	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tear	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 trousers	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 trousers	nmod:poss
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trousers	amod
29	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tear	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	You					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	manage	can	I	one				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	not accustom	present · passive	I			yet	to wolves	tree rules
4	tear	might	Walter	holes	my new trousers			tree rules

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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