The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 42
‘You had better not look at me so hard!’ said the Soldier.
Who acts: You, Soldier · What happens: have, not look, 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 (You, 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 look | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 look | advmod |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 hard | advmod |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 look | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Soldier | det |
| 15 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not look | infinitive | You not said here | at me; hard, well property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | ||||
| 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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