The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 16

Then the young tailor stepped boldly to the front and said, ‘The Princess has one silver and one golden hair on her head, and those are the two colours.’

Who acts: young tailor, Princess, those · What happens: step, say, have, be · To what, where: front, one silver, two colours · 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 (young tailor, Princess, those), 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	5 stepped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tailor	amod
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	nsubj
5	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 stepped	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 front	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 front	det
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stepped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stepped	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Princess	det
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 silver	nummod
18	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hair	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hair	nummod
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hair	amod
22	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 silver	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hair	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 colours	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 colours	cc
28	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 colours	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 colours	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 colours	det
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 colours	nummod
32	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stepped	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 colours	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 colours	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past	the young tailor		the front	then	boldly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to front=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the young tailor not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	the Princess	one silver and one golden hair on Princess's head				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Patient
4	is a	present	those	the two colours				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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