The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 42

You may have any help you like, but somehow or other you must manage to do it.’

Who acts: You · What happens: have, like, manage, do · To what, where: help

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 help	det
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 help	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 manage	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 manage	cc
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	15 manage	advmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 other	cc
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 somehow	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 manage	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 manage	aux
15	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 manage	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	may	You	any help		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient
2	like	present	you	any help not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
3	manage	must	you		somehow property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	help		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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