The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 118

‘How did you manage it? we never saw you.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: manage, not see · To what, where: behind, you

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 manage	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 manage	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 manage	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 manage	nsubj
5	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 manage	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 saw	advmod
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 manage	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	past · do-support	you	behind					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not see	past	we	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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