The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 136

He would so much like to smoke a small pipe of tobacco; it would be his last pipe in this world.

Who acts: fulfilment, pipe · What happens: like, smoke, be · To what, where: small pipe, last pipe, world

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 (fulfilment, pipe), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 smoke	mark
7	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pipe	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pipe	amod
10	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smoke	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 tobacco	case
12	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pipe	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 pipe	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pipe	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pipe	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 pipe	cop
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 pipe	nmod:poss
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pipe	amod
19	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pipe	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like	would	fulfilment			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	smoke not said to happen	to-infinitive	fulfilment not said here	a small pipe of tobacco		vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source
3	is a	would	pipe	fulfilment's last pipe	this world	tree rules

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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