The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 141

‘But,’ answered he, ‘let a man be ever so strong, he cannot carry more than a hundredweight, and what is that for a king’s daughter?’

Who acts: man · What happens: answer, let, be, not carry · To what, where: man, more, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answered	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obj
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 strong	cop
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 strong	advmod
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 let	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carry	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carry	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 carry	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 carry	advmod
20	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 strong	conj
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 carry	obj
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 hundredweight	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hundredweight	det
24	hundredweight	hundredweight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 more	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 that	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 that	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 that	obj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 that	cop
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 carry	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 daughter	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 daughter	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 king	case
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carry	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			man			tree rules
2	let	infinitive		a man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	is	infinitive	a man not said here			ever	strong property	tree rules
4	not carry	can	man	more			for a king's daughter	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
5	is a	present		that				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 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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