The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 21

The tailor, however, had no notion of being scared, but said cheerily, ‘Bravely dared is half won.’

Who acts: tailor · What happens: have, be, say, dare, win · To what, where: notion · 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 (tailor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tailor	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 notion	det
8	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 scared	case
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 scared	cop
11	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 notion	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
15	cheerily	cheerily	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 won	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 won	punct
18	Bravely	bravely	ADV	_	19 dared	advmod
19	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 won	advcl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 won	aux:pass
21	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	22 won	advmod
22	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the tailor	no notion	however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient
2	is	gerund			scared property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past			cheerily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	dare	participle			bravely property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	win	present · passive			half property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»

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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