The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 48

“Oh! yes; so far as that is concerned, I am not ill off,” said the sheriff.

Who acts: that, sheriff · What happens: be, not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, sheriff), 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	_	16 ill	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 so	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 ill	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 concerned	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 concerned	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 concerned	cop
11	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 far	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 far	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ill	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ill	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 ill	advmod
16	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	parataxis
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 ill	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ill	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 ill	punct
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sheriff	det
22	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that	concerned property	tree rules
2	not is in a quote	present	the sheriff = sheriff	far, ill property	tree rules
3	say speech: express	past	the sheriff		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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