The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 29

‘Come, this is not bad!’ said the Soldier.

Who acts: this, Soldier · What happens: come, not be, say · 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 (this, Soldier), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bad	punct
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 bad	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bad	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bad	advmod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Come	advcl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Soldier	det
12	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	present	this	bad property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Soldier		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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