The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 113

She may be able to advise us, for I must tell you that a little girl like you could never get permission to enter it.’

Who acts: Gerda, I, little girl, permission · What happens: be, advise, tell, not get, enter · To what, where: us, you, permission · 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 (Gerda, I, little girl, permission), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 able	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 able	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 advise	mark
6	advise	advise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 advise	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 tell	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 advise	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 get	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 girl	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 girl	amod
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	nsubj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 girl	nmod
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 get	aux
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 get	advmod
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	advcl
23	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 enter	mark
25	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 get	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 enter	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	may	Gerda			able property	tree rules
2	advise speech: other	to-infinitive	Gerda not said here		us		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	must	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	not get	could	a little girl like you	permission			tree rules
5	enter	to-infinitive	permission not said here	permission			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

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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