The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 99

We also cannot quite give up the grocer--because of the jam.

Who acts: We · What happens: not give up · To what, where: grocer

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 give	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 give	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grocer	det
9	grocer	grocer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 jam	punct
11	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 jam	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 because	fixed
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jam	det
14	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	can	We	the grocer				because the jam	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grocer=Source

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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