The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 53

The outside one, the Thumb, was short and fat; he was outside the rank, and had only one bend in his back, and could only make one bow; but he said that if he were cut off from a man that he was no longer any use as a soldier.

Who acts: outside one, birth · What happens: be, have, make, say, cut off · To what, where: one bend, back, one bow, birth, use · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (outside one, birth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 short	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Thumb	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Thumb	det
6	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 one	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 short	cop
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fat	cc
11	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 short	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 rank	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rank	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rank	cop
15	outside	outside	ADP	_	17 rank	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rank	det
17	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 short	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 short	parataxis
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 one	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 bend	nummod
23	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 back	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 back	nmod:poss
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bend	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 make	cc
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 make	advmod
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	conj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 bow	nummod
33	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 short	conj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 cut	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 cut	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 cut	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 cut	aux:pass
42	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 said	ccomp
43	off	off	ADP	_	42 cut	compound:prt
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 man	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 man	det
46	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cut	obl
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 use	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 use	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 use	cop
50	no	no	ADV	_	51 longer	advmod
51	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 use	advmod
52	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	53 use	det
53	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cut	advcl
54	as	as	ADP	_	56 soldier	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 soldier	det
56	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 use	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the outside one			short property	tree rules
2	be		the outside one not said here				tree rules
3	is	past	birth			outside the rank	tree rules
4	have	past		one bend	birth's back		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bend=Patient
5	make	could		one bow			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product
6	say speech: assert	past	birth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	cut off a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		birth		from a man	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from man=Initial_Location
8	is a	past	birth	any use		as a soldier; long 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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