The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 13
“Well, if it gets no worse than that, I can manage to stand it,” thought Cinderlad.
Who acts: barn, Cinderlad · What happens: get, manage, stand, think · To what, where: barn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (barn, Cinderlad), 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 | _ | 14 manage | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 manage | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 gets | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gets | nsubj |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 manage | advcl |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 worse | advmod |
| 8 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 gets | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 worse | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gets | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 manage | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 manage | aux |
| 14 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stand | mark |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 manage | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stand | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 manage | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 manage | punct |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | Cinderlad | Cinderlad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | barn | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | manage in a quote | can | Cinderlad | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | to-infinitive | Cinderlad not said here | barn | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Cinderlad | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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