The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 181

‘If one had but a little tobacco,’ said a third.

Who acts: one · What happens: have, say · To what, where: third · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 had	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 tobacco	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tobacco	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tobacco	amod
8	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 third	det
13	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	one						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		a third					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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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