The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 53

“It wasn’t strength that was wanting,” replied the tailor; “do you think that would have been anything for a man who has killed seven at a blow?

Who acts: strength, that, tailor, you · What happens: not be, want, reply, think, be, kill · To what, where: strength, anything, man · 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 (strength, that, tailor, 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	_	5 strength	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strength	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strength	cop
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 strength	advmod
5	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wanting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wanting	aux
8	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 strength	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanting	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 strength	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tailor	det
13	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 think	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 think	nsubj
18	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 replied	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 anything	mark
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 anything	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 anything	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 anything	cop
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 think	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 man	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 anything	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 killed	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 killed	aux
29	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 man	acl:relcl
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 killed	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 blow	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 blow	det
33	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seven	nmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	past	strength	strength		tree rules
2	want in a quote	past · progressive	that			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	reply speech: ask	past	the tailor			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	would · perfect		anything	for a man	tree rules
6	kill in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a man		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer seven=Result

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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