The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 10

The clerk, however, said that he could not get a sight of it, for then Peter would long after him and forget all that he had already learned.

Who acts: clerk, man, Peter · What happens: say, not get, forget, learn, sight · To what, where: sight, calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, man, Peter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clerk	det
2	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 clerk	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 get	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 get	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 get	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 get	advmod
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sight	det
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sight	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 forget	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 then	case
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 forget	obl
19	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 forget	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 him	aux
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 him	advmod
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 Peter	flat
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 forget	cc
25	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 get	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 learned	det:predet
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 learned	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 learned	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 learned	aux
30	already	already	ADV	_	31 learned	advmod
31	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 forget	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the clerk		however property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not get	could	man	a sight of calf		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus
3	forget	infinitive	Peter			tree rules
4	learn	past · perfect	man			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sight			calf		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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