The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 35
The giant didn’t know what to say, for he couldn’t have believed it of the little fellow.
Who acts: giant · What happens: not know, say, not believe · To what, where: play · 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 (giant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 say | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 believed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 believed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 believed | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 believed | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 believed | aux |
| 15 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 know | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fellow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fellow | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fellow | amod |
| 20 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 believed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not believe | could · perfect · passive | play | of the little fellow | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme it=Eventuality |
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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