The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 4
Walter can manage them very well alone.’
Who acts: Walter · What happens: manage · To what, where: them
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 (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 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 manage | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 manage | aux |
| 3 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 manage | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 manage | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 manage | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 manage | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | can | Walter | them = they | alone, well property | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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