The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 52

‘We can always try,’ answered Ciccu; ‘and if times are bad we can come back here and take up wood-cutting.’

Who acts: We, times · What happens: try, answer, be, come back, take up · To what, where: Ciccu, wood cutting

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, times), 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	_	5 try	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 try	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 try	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 try	advmod
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 try	parataxis
9	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 bad	mark
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bad	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bad	cop
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 come	advcl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 try	conj
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 come	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 take	compound:prt
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cutting	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 wood	punct
27	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	can	We				always property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	past			Ciccu			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ciccu=Eventuality
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	times				bad property	tree rules
4	come back	can	we			here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take up	infinitive	we not said here	wood cutting				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cutting=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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