The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 91
‘You must manage somehow,’ he answered, and held her tighter than ever.
Who acts: You, wretch · What happens: manage, answer, hold
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wretch), 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 | _ | 4 manage | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 manage | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 manage | aux |
| 4 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 4 manage | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 manage | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 held | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 held | cc |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tighter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 held | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 ever | case |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 tighter | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | must | You | somehow property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | wretch | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | wretch not said here | tight property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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