The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 109

‘Well,’ said Blockhead-Hans, ‘if I can’t have a horse, I will take the goat which is mine; he can carry me!’

Who acts: Blockhead, I, goat · What happens: say, not have, take, be, carry · To what, where: horse, goat, mine, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blockhead, I, goat), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Hans	punct
8	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Blockhead	nmod:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
13	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 have	advmod
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 horse	det
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goat	det
23	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 mine	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mine	cop
26	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 goat	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 carry	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carry	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 carry	aux
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 carry	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 carry	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Blockhead Hans			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have a condition, not said to happen	can	I	a horse		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	take	future	I		the goat	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goat=Destination
4	is a	present	the goat	mine		tree rules
5	carry	can	BLOCKHEAD	me		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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