The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 40

‘No, not nearly,’ said Hans; ‘I must try to find a better place than this, for I can see that I shall never get my fill here.’

Who acts: Hans, I · What happens: say, try, find, see, not get · To what, where: better place, fill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, 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	_	8 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 nearly	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nearly	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 nearly	advmod
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nearly	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 nearly	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 try	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 place	amod
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 place	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 see	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 get	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 get	advmod
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 see	advcl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fill	nmod:poss
33	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 get	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hans			nearly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try	must	I				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a better place		than this	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
4	see	can	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not get	shall	I	my fill	here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fill=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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