The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 42

‘It must be of iron,’ said he, ‘and one that can hold out.’

Who acts: staff, iron, one · What happens: be, say, hold out · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staff, iron, 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	_	6 iron	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 iron	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 iron	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 iron	cop
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 iron	case
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 iron	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 iron	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 one	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 one	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hold	nsubj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hold	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hold	aux
17	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 hold	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hold	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	must	staff	of iron	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	iron		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hold out	can	one		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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