The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 31

‘Let me try again,’ said the bear; ‘when I see the thing done it looks so easy I fancy I _must_ be able to manage it myself.’

Who acts: me, bear, I, thing · What happens: let, try, say, see, do, look · To what, where: me, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, bear, I, thing), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 try	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 looks	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 looks	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 see	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 looks	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 thing	acl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 done	obj
20	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fancy	advcl
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 easy	advmod
22	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 looks	xcomp
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 fancy	nsubj
24	fancy	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 fancy	nsubj
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 able	aux
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fancy	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 manage	mark
32	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 manage	obj
34	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	32 manage	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
2	try	infinitive	me not said here		again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the bear				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	present	I	the thing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	do	participle	the thing not said here	thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	look	present	I not said here			easy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	fancy	present	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	must				able property	tree rules
9	manage	to-infinitive		thing		myself obl:unmarked	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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