The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 117

‘How can I manage to get her home?

Who acts: I · What happens: manage, get · To what, where: home

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 manage	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 manage	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 manage	nsubj
5	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 manage	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 home	nmod:poss
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	can	I						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	Hannah's home					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer home=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 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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