The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 140

‘I will try, and then the ring will very soon come off,’ said Farmer Weatherbeard.

Who acts: I, ring, Farmer · What happens: try, come off, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ring, Farmer), 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	_	4 try	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 come	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
11	very	very	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 come	advmod
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 come	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
19	Weatherbeard	Weatherbeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Farmer	flat
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	try	future	I			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	come off	future	the ring	then	soon property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Farmer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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