The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 113

A few days after they were again speaking of the magic ring, and the youth said, ‘I do not think it possible that the ring can have all the power you say it has.’

Who acts: men, few days, I, ring, you · What happens: speak, say, not think, have · To what, where: few days, ring, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, few days, I, ring), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	nsubj
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 speaking	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 speaking	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 speaking	aux
7	again	again	ADV	_	8 speaking	advmod
8	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 days	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 ring	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ring	det
11	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ring	amod
12	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speaking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youth	det
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 think	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 think	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 think	advmod
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 think	obj
25	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 think	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 have	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ring	det
28	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 possible	advcl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 power	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 power	det
33	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 say	nsubj
35	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 power	acl:relcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 has	nsubj
37	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 say	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	men = man	a few days not said here	again	of the magic ring	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a few days				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I	ring		possible property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
4	have	can	the ring	all power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
5	say speech: assert	present	you	all power not said here			tree rules
6	have	present	ring				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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