The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 84

‘That may be,’ said the Prince, ‘but as all the others have tried it, Kari may try it too.’

Who acts: That, Prince, others, Kari · What happens: be, say, try · To what, where: foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Prince, others, Kari), 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	_	4 be	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 be	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 try	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 try	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 try	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 tried	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 others	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tried	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tried	aux
18	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 try	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tried	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tried	punct
21	Kari	Kari	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 try	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 try	aux
23	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 try	obj
25	too	too	ADV	_	23 try	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	be	may	That		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Prince		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	present · perfect	all others	foot	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	try	may	Kari	foot	vn try-61.1 «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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