The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 20

But I will try to find some way of doing it.

Who acts: I, way · What happens: try, find, do · To what, where: way

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, way), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 try	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 doing	mark
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 way	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 doing	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	future	I		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	some way	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	do	gerund	some way not said here	way	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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