The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 132

The shoemaker’s boy was very willing to earn four shillings, and fetched the tinder-box, gave it to the Soldier, and--yes--now you shall hear.

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: be, earn, fetch, give, hear · To what, where: four shillings, tinder box, box, Soldier

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 (boy, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoemaker	det
2	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 shoemaker	case
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 willing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 willing	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 willing	advmod
7	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 earn	mark
9	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 willing	xcomp
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 shillings	nummod
11	shillings	shilling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 earn	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fetched	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fetched	cc
14	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 willing	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 box	det
16	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 box	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 tinder	punct
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetched	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fetched	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gave	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Soldier	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Soldier	det
24	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hear	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hear	cc
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 and	punct
28	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	33 hear	discourse
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 yes	punct
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 hear	advmod
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 hear	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 hear	aux
33	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 willing	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 willing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shoemaker's boy				willing property	tree rules
2	earn	to-infinitive	the shoemaker's boy not said here	four shillings				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shilling=Theme
3	fetch	past		the tinder box				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
4	give	past		box	the Soldier			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to soldier=Recipient
5	hear	shall	you			now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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