The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 51

Then said Jack, ‘Daddy, let the blacksmith shoe my cock once more; then I’ll ride off, and I promise you I’ll never come back again as long as I live.’

Who acts: Jack, I · What happens: say, let, ride off, promise, not come back, live · To what, where: blacksmith shoe, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Daddy	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Daddy	punct
6	Daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Jack	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shoe	det
10	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shoe	compound
11	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cock	nmod:poss
13	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 let	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ride	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 ride	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ride	nsubj
19	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 ride	aux
20	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 ride	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 promise	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 promise	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 promise	nsubj
25	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ride	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 promise	iobj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
28	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 come	advmod
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 promise	ccomp
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	again	again	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 come	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 live	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 live	nsubj
37	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 long	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 ride	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 ride	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jack			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		the blacksmith shoe				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Recipient cock=Theme
3	ride off	future	I			then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	promise speech: promise	present	I		you			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not come back	future	I				long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	live	present	I					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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