The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 11

‘I am a poor tailor,’ replied the youth.

Who acts: I, poor tailor · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: poor tailor, youth

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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 tailor	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tailor	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tailor	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tailor	amod
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tailor	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 tailor	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a poor tailor					tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	a poor tailor	the youth					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic

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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