The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 7

‘But how shall we manage it,’ asked one of them.

Who acts: we · What happens: manage, ask · To what, where: way, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (we), 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 manage	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 manage	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 manage	advmod
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 manage	aux
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 manage	nsubj
6	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 manage	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 manage	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 asked	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 one	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	shall	we	way					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past		one of rascals					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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