The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 44

‘What would be the good of my taking a near shot?’ replied the man; ‘I can hit beast or bird at a hundred miles’ distance.

Who acts: my, I · What happens: be, take, reply, hit · To what, where: near shot, man, beast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my, I), 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 good	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 good	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 good	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 good	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 replied	ccomp
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 taking	mark
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 taking	nsubj
9	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 good	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shot	det
11	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shot	amod
12	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taking	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 replied	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hit	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 hit	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hit	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hit	aux
22	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 replied	parataxis
23	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hit	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 bird	cc
25	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 beast	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	31 distance	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 miles	det
28	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 miles	nummod
29	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 distance	nmod:poss
30	’	's	PART	_	29 miles	case
31	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hit	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would			good property	tree rules
2	take	gerund	my	a near shot		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	past		the man		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4	hit	can	I	beast or bird	at a hundred miles's distance	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beast=Theme at distance=Destination

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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