The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 96

Can I not manage to see her somehow?

Who acts: I · What happens: not manage, not see · To what, where: Witch

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 manage	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 manage	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 manage	advmod
4	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 manage	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not manage	can	I						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not see	to-infinitive	I not said here	Witch				somehow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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