The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 11
If we could only get him out of the way we might succeed better.’
Who acts: we · What happens: get, succeed · To what, where: Ferko, way
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obl |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 succeed | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 succeed | aux |
| 13 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 succeed | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | we | Ferko | the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | succeed | might | we | the way not said here | good 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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