The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 31

Oh, you can come near; I am cleverer than you, and know how to pick up a bundle very well.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: come, be, know, pick up · To what, where: bundle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	near	near	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 cleverer	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 cleverer	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cleverer	cop
10	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 come	parataxis
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 cleverer	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 know	cc
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 pick	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 pick	mark
18	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 know	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 pick	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bundle	det
21	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pick	obj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 well	advmod
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 pick	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	can	you		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	I		than you; clever property	tree rules
3	know	infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	pick up	to-infinitive		a bundle	well property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=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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