The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 131

‘Then I too will climb it and try my luck.’

Who acts: I · What happens: climb, try · To what, where: staircase, luck

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. 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	_	6 climb	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 climb	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 climb	nsubj
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 climb	advmod
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 climb	aux
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 climb	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 try	cc
9	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 climb	conj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 luck	nmod:poss
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 try	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 climb	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	future	I	staircase			then		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
2	try	infinitive	I not said here	my luck					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=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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