The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 215

‘I am not sure that I can do it,’ said the man, ‘for I have to go to a wedding with this cask of mead which I have been to fetch, and the tap has fallen out on the way, so now I have to keep my finger in the tap-hole as I drive.’

Who acts: I, man, tap · What happens: not be, do, say, have, go, be · To what, where: wood, wedding, way, finger, tap hole · 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 (I, man, tap), 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 sure	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sure	advmod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sure	ccomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 wedding	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wedding	det
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 cask	case
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 cask	det
28	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 mead	case
30	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cask	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 fetch	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 fetch	nsubj
33	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 fetch	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 fetch	cop
35	to	to	PART	_	36 fetch	mark
36	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 cask	acl:relcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fallen	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fallen	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tap	det
40	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fallen	nsubj
41	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 fallen	aux
42	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	conj
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 fallen	compound:prt
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 way	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fallen	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 have	punct
48	so	so	ADV	_	51 have	advmod
49	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 have	advmod
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 have	nsubj
51	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 fallen	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 keep	mark
53	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 have	xcomp
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 finger	nmod:poss
55	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 keep	obj
56	in	in	ADP	_	60 hole	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 hole	det
58	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 hole	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 tap	punct
60	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 keep	obl
61	as	as	SCONJ	_	63 drive	mark
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 drive	nsubj
63	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 keep	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	I				sure property	tree rules
2	do	can	I	wood				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	the man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	I					tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive	I not said here		a wedding		with this cask of mead	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location
6	is	present · perfect	I				fetch property	tree rules
7	fall out	present · perfect	the tap		the way			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
8	have	present	I			now		tree rules
9	keep	to-infinitive	I not said here	my finger	the tap hole			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in hole=Location
10	drive	present	I					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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