The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 9
“That won’t taste amiss,” he said; “but I’ll finish that waistcoat first before I take a bite.”
Who acts: That, tailor · What happens: not taste, say, finish, take · To what, where: waistcoat, bite · 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 (That, tailor), 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 taste | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 taste | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 taste | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 taste | advmod |
| 5 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | amiss | amiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 taste | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taste | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 taste | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 finish | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 finish | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 finish | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 finish | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 finish | aux |
| 16 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 waistcoat | det |
| 18 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finish | obj |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 finish | advmod |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 finish | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bite | det |
| 24 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 finish | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not taste in a quote | future | That | amiss property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | tailor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | finish in a quote | future | tailor | that waistcoat | first property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector waistcoat=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | present | tailor | a bite | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=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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