The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 162

‘Shall I never be able to get in there?

Who acts: I · What happens: not be, get

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. 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 able	punct
2	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 able	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 able	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 able	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 there	case
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 get	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	shall	I					able property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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