The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 67

“Oh!” they said, “what can this great hero of a hundred fights want in our peaceful land?

Who acts: people, great hero · What happens: say, hero, want · To what, where: peaceful land · 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 (people, great hero), 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 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hero	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 hero	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 hero	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hero	aux
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 hero	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hero	amod
13	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 want	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 fights	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hundred	det
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 fights	nummod
17	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hero	nmod
18	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 land	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 land	nmod:poss
21	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 land	amod
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 want	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hero in a quote	can			of hundred fights	tree rules
3	want in a quote	present	this great hero	our peaceful land		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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