The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 145
If the tailor and the coachbuilder were quick he promised to pay them double.
Who acts: tailor, soldier · What happens: be, promise, pay · To what, where: tailor
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailor, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 quick | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quick | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 coachbuilder | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coachbuilder | det |
| 6 | coachbuilder | coachbuilder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tailor | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 quick | cop |
| 8 | quick | quick | ADV | _ | 10 promised | advcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 promised | nsubj |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | obj |
| 14 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pay | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the tailor and the coachbuilder | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | soldier | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | tailor | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient double=Asset |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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