The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 18

“What did I say, the town? no, the whole world shall hear of it,” he said; and his heart beat for joy as a lamb wags his tail.

Who acts: world, whole world, heart beat · What happens: say, hear, wag · To what, where: town, tail · 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 (world, whole world, heart beat), 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 say	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 town	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 say	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 world	amod
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	aux
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hear	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 wags	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 beat	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beat	nmod:poss
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beat	compound
27	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wags	nsubj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 joy	case
29	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beat	nmod
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 lamb	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lamb	det
32	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beat	nmod
33	wags	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 tail	nmod:poss
35	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wags	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	world	the town		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme town=Manner
2	hear in a quote	shall	the whole world		of town	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
3	say speech: ask	past	world			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wag	present	world's heart beat for joy as a lamb	world's tail		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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