The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 21
Still she could manage to live, and that was enough.
Who acts: girl, that · What happens: manage, live, be
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 manage | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 manage | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 manage | aux |
| 4 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 manage | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enough | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 enough | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 enough | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enough | cop |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 manage | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | could | girl | still | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | that | enough 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 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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