The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 128

‘Oh, shoemaker’s boy, you needn’t be in such a hurry!’ said the Soldier to him.

Who acts: you, shoemaker boy · What happens: need, not be, say · To what, where: shoemaker boy, hurry, Soldier · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, shoemaker boy), 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 boy	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 shoemaker	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	compound
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 shoemaker	case
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
9	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	acl:relcl
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 hurry	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 hurry	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 hurry	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 hurry	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hurry	det
15	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Soldier	det
20	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	need	present	you	shoemaker boy not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot boy=Theme
2	not is	infinitive				such hurry	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	shoemaker boy	the Soldier	soldier		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic to he=Recipient

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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