The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 1

Now let no one say that a poor tailor can’t get on in the world, and, indeed, even attain to very high honour.

Who acts: you, one, poor tailor · What happens: let, say, not get on, attain · To what, where: one, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, poor tailor), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 get	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tailor	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tailor	amod
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 get	advmod
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 get	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 attain	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 attain	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	23 attain	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 indeed	punct
22	even	even	ADV	_	23 attain	advmod
23	attain	attain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 honour	case
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 high	advmod
26	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 honour	amod
27	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 attain	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	no one		now		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	no one not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not get on	can	a poor tailor		the world			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	attain	infinitive	you not said here				to high honour; indeed property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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