The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 70
‘I will no longer be particular,’ he said, ‘and will take what comes, so that the sack shall be full.’
Who acts: I, man, sack · What happens: be, say, take, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. 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, sack), 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 | _ | 7 particular | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 particular | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 particular | aux |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 particular | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 particular | cop |
| 7 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 particular | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 particular | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 comes | nsubj |
| 18 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 full | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sack | det |
| 23 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 full | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 full | cop |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 take | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | I | long, particular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | future | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||||
| 4 | come | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | shall | the sack | full property | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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