The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 13

‘Then,’ said the second tailor, ‘if they are not black and white, no doubt they are red and brown, like my father’s Sunday coat.’

Who acts: tailors, doubt · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: second tailor · 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, doubt), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tailor	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 tailor	amod
8	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 black	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 black	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 black	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 black	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 black	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 black	advmod
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 white	cc
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 black	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 red	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 doubt	det
20	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 red	nsubj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 red	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 red	cop
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 black	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brown	cc
25	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 red	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 coat	punct
27	like	like	ADP	_	32 coat	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coat	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 father	case
31	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 coat	compound
32	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 black	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the second tailor	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic
2	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	tailors = tailor			black property	tree rules
3	be		tailors = tailor not said here				tree rules
4	is	present	no doubt			red property	tree rules
5	be		no doubt not said here				tree rules

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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