The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 68

“The pedlar should keep him from eating my cabbages,” said Nur Mahomed; “if he comes this evening here again I’ll cut off his tail for him!”

Who acts: pedlar, Nur · What happens: keep, eat, say, come, 'll off, cut off · To what, where: donkey, cabbages, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pedlar, Nur), 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	_	5 keep	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pedlar	det
3	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 eating	mark
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 keep	advcl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cabbages	nmod:poss
10	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Nur	Nur	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	Mahomed	Mahomed	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Nur	flat
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 comes	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 comes	nsubj
20	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 comes	obl:unmarked
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 comes	advmod
24	again	again	ADV	_	26 ’ll	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ’ll	nsubj
26	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 comes	advcl
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 off	amod
28	off	off	ADP	_	26 ’ll	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tail	nmod:poss
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ’ll	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ’ll	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	should	the pedlar	donkey				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	eat in a quote	gerund	the pedlar not said here	my cabbages				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient
3	say speech: express	past	Nur					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	pedlar		here	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	'll off in a quote	present	Nur	pedlar's tail		again	for pedlar	tree rules
6	cut off in a quote	participle						vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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