The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 16

‘I will,’ says he, ‘but with your wooden legs you will soon be tired.

Who acts: Drakestail, you · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drakestail, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg540:2359): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 will	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 tired	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 legs	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 legs	nmod:poss
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 legs	amod
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tired	obl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tired	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tired	aux
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 tired	advmod
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 tired	cop
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 says	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Drakestail						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	future	you					with your wooden legs; soon, tired property	tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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