The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 98

‘But how can I come up?’ said the ogre, ‘I see no door, and I could not possibly climb that tower.’

Who acts: I · What happens: come up, say, see, not climb · To what, where: ogre, door, tower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. 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	_	6 come	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 come	compound:prt
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ogre	det
12	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 see	nsubj
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 climb	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 climb	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 climb	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 climb	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 climb	advmod
24	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	25 climb	advmod
25	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	conj
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 tower	det
27	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 climb	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	can	I			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the ogre		tree rules
3	see	present	I	no door		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus
4	not climb	could	I	that tower	possibly property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tower=Theme

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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