The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 82

‘He might have been able to direct me to the church, for I shall never find it alone.’

Who acts: griffin, I · What happens: be, direct, not find · To what, where: me, church

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 (griffin, 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	_	6 able	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 able	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 direct	mark
8	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 direct	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 church	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 church	det
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 direct	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 find	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 find	advmod
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 direct	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	18 find	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	might · perfect	griffin		able property	tree rules
2	direct	to-infinitive	griffin not said here	me	to the church	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	not find	shall	I	church	alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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