The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 75

“Old as I am,” replied the cobbler, “I have very good eyes, and will you believe me when I tell you that I sewed a dead body together in a place where I had less light than I have now.”

Who acts: Old, you · What happens: reply, have, believe, tell, sew · To what, where: cobbler, good eyes, Old, you, dead body, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old, you), 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 Old	punct
2	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 replied	nsubj
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 am	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 am	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Old	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 am	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Old	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cobbler	det
10	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	parataxis
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 eyes	amod
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 believe	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 believe	cc
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 believe	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 believe	nsubj
22	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 have	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 believe	iobj
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 tell	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
26	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 believe	ccomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 sewed	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 sewed	nsubj
30	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 body	det
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 body	amod
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sewed	obj
34	together	together	ADV	_	30 sewed	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 place	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 place	det
37	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sewed	obl
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 had	advmod
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 place	acl:relcl
41	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 light	amod
42	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
43	than	than	SCONJ	_	45 have	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 have	nsubj
45	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 had	advcl
46	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 have	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Old	the cobbler					tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	Old	good eyes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	believe in a quote	future	you		Old				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Old		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	sew in a quote	past	Old	a dead body		a place		together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in place=Destination
6	have in a quote	past	Old	less light					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
7	have in a quote	present	Old				now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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