The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 52

‘That’s nothing,’ answered the man; ‘I should finish that in one mouthful.’

Who acts: That, nothing, I · What happens: be, answer, finish · To what, where: nothing, man, that, one mouthful · 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 (That, nothing, 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	_	4 nothing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 nothing	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nothing	cop
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 answered	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 nothing	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 finish	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 finish	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 finish	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 finish	aux
14	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 finish	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 mouthful	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 mouthful	nummod
18	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finish	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 finish	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 finish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	That	nothing			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	nothing		the man		tree rules
3	finish	should	I	that		one mouthful	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector that=Eventuality

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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