The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 11

‘If that’s all,’ said the first tailor, ‘they are most likely black and white, like the kind of cloth we call pepper-and-salt.’

Who acts: tailors, we · What happens: say, be, call · To what, where: first tailor, pepper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailors, we), 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	_	8 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 ’s	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 ’s	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ’s	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ’s	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ’s	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tailor	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 tailor	amod
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 likely	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 likely	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 likely	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 likely	cop
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 likely	advmod
17	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
18	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kind	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 white	cc
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 black	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kind	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 kind	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kind	det
24	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 likely	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 cloth	case
26	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kind	nmod
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 call	nsubj
28	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 kind	acl:relcl
29	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 call	obj
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 salt	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 salt	cc
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 and	punct
33	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pepper	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the first tailor		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic
2	is	present	tailors = tailor		likely property	tree rules
3	call	present	we	pepper and salt		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pepper=Recipient

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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