The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 119

He would hardly make one bite, and, after all, how do we know we are not throwing away our luck!

Who acts: brother, we, all · What happens: make, know, not throw away · To what, where: one bite, luck

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, we, all), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bite	nummod
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 throwing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 throwing	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 throwing	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 know	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 all	conj
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 throwing	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 throwing	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 throwing	advmod
20	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 make	advcl
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 throwing	advmod
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 luck	nmod:poss
23	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throwing	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	would	brother	one bite	hardly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Product
2	know	present · do-support	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not throw away	present · progressive	all	our luck	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Theme

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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