The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 70

‘How will you be enough,’ asked the sultan, ‘to manage this horse and all these clothes?’

Who acts: you, enough · What happens: be, ask, manage · To what, where: sultan, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, enough), 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 enough	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 enough	advmod
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 enough	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 enough	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 enough	cop
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asked	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 enough	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 enough	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sultan	det
11	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 manage	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 manage	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	15 manage	mark
15	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 manage	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 manage	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 clothes	det:predet
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 clothes	det
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	15 manage	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 manage	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	future	you		enough property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	enough	the sultan		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic
3	manage not said to happen	to-infinitive		this horse		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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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