The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 106
‘However can I undertake to make clothes of that sort?
Who acts: I · What happens: undertake, make · To what, where: clothes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 undertake | punct |
| 2 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 undertake | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 undertake | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 undertake | nsubj |
| 5 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 undertake | xcomp |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sort | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clothes | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 undertake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | can | I | however property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | clothes of that sort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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