The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 75

“What’s to come of it all?” they asked each other; “if we quarrel with him, he’ll let out at us, and at every blow seven will fall.

Who acts: officers, we, messenger, blow · What happens: come, ask, quarrel, let out, fall · To what, where: each · 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 (officers, we, messenger, blow), 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 come	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 come	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 asked	obj
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 quarrel	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 quarrel	nsubj
19	quarrel	quarrel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 let	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 quarrel	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 quarrel	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	nsubj
24	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 let	aux
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 let	compound:prt
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 let	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fall	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fall	cc
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 blow	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 blow	det
33	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fall	nsubj
34	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 blow	flat
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 fall	aux
36	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come not said to happen, in a quote	present			of success	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	officers = officer	each		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic
3	quarrel a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we		with messenger	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
4	let out in a quote	future	messenger		at us	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at we=Asset
5	fall in a quote	future	every blow			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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