The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 4

Ritter Red has said that he will be able to set her free, but who knows whether he will be able to do it? so you may easily imagine what grief and distress we are in here.’

Who acts: Ritter, you, we · What happens: say, be, set, know, do, imagine · To what, where: Ritter, free, maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Ritter, 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	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj:pass
2	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ritter	flat
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 able	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 able	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 able	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 set	mark
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 free	nmod:poss
13	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 set	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knows	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 knows	cc
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 knows	nsubj
17	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 set	advcl
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 able	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 able	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 able	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knows	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 do	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 imagine	advmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 imagine	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 imagine	aux
30	easily	easily	ADV	_	31 imagine	advmod
31	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 grief	nsubj
33	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 imagine	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 distress	cc
35	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 grief	conj
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 here	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 here	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 here	case
39	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 grief	parataxis
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 imagine	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		Ritter		tree rules
2	is	future	Ritter		able property	tree rules
3	set	to-infinitive	Ritter not said here	daughter's free		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result
4	know	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	future	Ritter		able property	tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	Ritter not said here	maid		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	imagine	may	you		easily property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	grief					tree rules
9	is	present	we		here property	tree rules

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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