The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 86

‘Yes, I can do that,’ answered the old woman; ‘but to-morrow I must have it back again.

Who acts: I · What happens: do, answer, have back · To what, where: that, old woman, Lion

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 do	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 do	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 do	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 have	cc
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 morrow	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	I	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	answer speech: assert	past	I not said here		the old woman			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
3	have back	must	I	Lion		again	to morrow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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