The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 86
‘How could I possibly be able to lodge such a great gentleman as you?
Who acts: I · What happens: be, lodge · To what, where: great gentleman
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. 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 | _ | 7 able | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 able | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 able | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 able | nsubj |
| 5 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 7 able | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | cop |
| 7 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 lodge | mark |
| 9 | lodge | lodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | xcomp |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 gentleman | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gentleman | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gentleman | amod |
| 13 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lodge | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 lodge | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | could | I | able, possibly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lodge | to-infinitive | I not said here | such great gentleman | as you | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme gentleman=Location |
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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