The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 16
“What a desperate fellow I am!” said he, and was filled with admiration at his own courage.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: be, say, fill · To what, where: desperate fellow, own courage · 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 (tailor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3196): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 fellow | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fellow | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fellow | cop |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | aux:pass |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 admiration | case |
| 17 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 courage | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 courage | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 courage | amod |
| 21 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | tailor | what desperate fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | tailor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | tailor not said here | tailor's own courage | with admiration | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with admiration=Instrument |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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