The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 106
“No fear,” answered the tailor; “they haven’t touched a hair of my head.”
Who acts: fear, horsemen · What happens: answer, not touch · To what, where: tailor, hair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, horsemen), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 fear | det |
| 3 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tailor | det |
| 8 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 touched | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 touched | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 touched | advmod |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 answered | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hair | det |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touched | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hair | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | no fear | the tailor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not touch in a quote | present · perfect | horsemen = horseman | a hair of my head | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Co-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 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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