The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 32

‘Yes,’ said the boy, for he thought that was a trade which would not take long to learn.

Who acts: boy, that, trade · What happens: say, think, be, not take, learn · To what, where: trade · 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 (boy, that, trade), 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 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 thought	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 trade	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trade	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trade	det
15	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	ccomp
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 take	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 take	advmod
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trade	acl:relcl
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 take	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 learn	mark
22	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	boy			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	that	a trade		tree rules
4	not take	would	a trade		long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	learn	to-infinitive	a trade not said here			vn learn-14-1 «NP 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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