The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 27

He is a savage dog, I can tell you; but you needn’t be afraid of him either.

Who acts: Copenhagen, I, you · What happens: be, tell, not be · To what, where: savage dog, you · 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 (Copenhagen, I, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dog	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dog	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dog	acl:relcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 afraid	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 afraid	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 afraid	nsubj
14	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 afraid	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 afraid	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 afraid	cop
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 afraid	obl
20	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 afraid	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dog	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Copenhagen	a savage dog			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	can	I	a savage dog not said here	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	not is	present	you			of Copenhagen; afraid, either property	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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