The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 6

‘Come, my good youth,’ said the old dame, when he had finished his tale of woe, ‘isn’t the world wide enough?

Who acts: creature, ‘, woe · What happens: come, say, finish, not be, tell · To what, where: good youth, old dame, tale, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, ‘, woe), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 youth	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 youth	nmod:poss
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 youth	amod
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dame	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dame	amod
12	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 finished	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 finished	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 finished	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 finished	aux
17	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 dame	acl:relcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tale	nmod:poss
19	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 finished	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 woe	case
21	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tale	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 world	punct
23	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 world	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 world	cop
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 world	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tale	appos
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 world	amod
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 wide	advmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	infinitive		my good youth	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the old dame	tree rules
3	finish	past · perfect	creature	creature's tale of woe	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tale=Eventuality
4	not is a	present	‘	the world	tree rules
5	tell		woe		nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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 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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