The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 109
‘That doesn’t matter,’ said the old man; ‘I can do better than that.
Who acts: That, old man, I · What happens: not matter, say, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, old man, 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 | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 matter | advmod |
| 5 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 better | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | That | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | can | I | well property | vn act-114-1 «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 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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