The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 47

‘I haven’t had much luck to-day,’ he said, ‘but I have a tight hold on three soldiers.’

Who acts: I, stone · What happens: not have, say, have · To what, where: much luck, tight hold, three soldiers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stone), 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 had	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 luck	amod
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ‘	punct
16	‘	‘	INTJ	_	14 said	parataxis
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hold	det
21	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hold	amod
22	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 soldiers	case
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 soldiers	nummod
25	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hold	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not have	present · perfect	I	much luck		day	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	stone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	a tight hold	three soldiers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Patient

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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