The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 14

‘Wrong again,’ said the Princess; ‘now let the third speak.

What happens: say, let · To what, where: Princess, third speak · 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: 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	_	2 Wrong	punct
2	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 Wrong	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wrong	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wrong	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 speak	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 speak	amod
15	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 let	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Princess					tree rules
2	let	infinitive		the third speak			now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=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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