The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 111

‘That’s easily said!’ answered the crow, ‘but how are we to manage that?

Who acts: we · What happens: say, be · To what, where: That, crow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 said	nsubj:pass
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
4	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 crow	advcl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crow	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crow	det
10	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crow	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 manage	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 manage	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 manage	advmod
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 manage	cop
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 manage	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 manage	mark
18	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 crow	parataxis
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 manage	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 crow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		That	easily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is a	past		the crow		tree rules
3	is	present	we		manage property	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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