The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 26

‘We want to load the cart with our walnuts, but we can’t manage to do it.’

Who acts: We · What happens: want, load, not manage, not do · To what, where: cart

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	3 want	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 load	mark
5	load	load	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cart	det
7	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 load	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 walnuts	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 walnuts	nmod:poss
10	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 load	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 manage	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 manage	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 manage	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 manage	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 manage	advmod
16	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 manage	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	We			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	load not said to happen	to-infinitive	We not said here	the cart	with our walnuts	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent cart=Destination with walnut=Theme
3	not manage	can	we			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not do	to-infinitive	we not said here	cart		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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