The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 89

“The crow was it?” said the fox, “well, the crow had better not meet me for the future, or it may be the worse for him.”

Who acts: crow, fox · What happens: be, say, have, not meet · To what, where: crow, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, fox), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crow	det
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 it	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 it	cop
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 it	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 it	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
13	well	well	INTJ	_	17 had	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 well	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crow	det
16	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
18	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 meet	advmod
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 meet	advmod
20	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 meet	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 future	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 future	det
24	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meet	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 worse	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 worse	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 worse	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 worse	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 worse	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 worse	det
31	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 had	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 worse	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	the crow	crow		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the fox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	past	the crow			tree rules
4	not meet in a quote	infinitive	the crow not said here	the fox = fox	for the future; well property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent
5	is in a quote	may	crow		for fox; bad 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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