The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 95

‘Even supposing that I managed to find my way here again, I don’t see how I could ever tell which was the princess.’

Who acts: I · What happens: suppose, manage, find, not see, tell, be · To what, where: way, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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	_	3 supposing	punct
2	Even	even	ADV	_	3 supposing	advmod
3	supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 managed	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 managed	nsubj
6	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 supposing	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 managed	xcomp
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 way	nmod:poss
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 find	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	8 find	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 supposing	parataxis
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 tell	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 tell	advmod
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 see	advcl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 princess	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 princess	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 princess	det
26	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 supposing	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 supposing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	suppose	gerund					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	manage	past	I				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	my way	here	again	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	not see	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	could	I			ever	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		the princess			tree rules

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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