The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 28

‘Dear me,’ thought he, ‘what a stupid fool I must be--can’t even crack a nut,’ and he said to the tailor, ‘I say, crack my nuts for me, will you?’

Who acts: bear, I · What happens: think, not crack, say, crack · To what, where: nut, tailor, nuts · 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 (bear, I), 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 Dear	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	parataxis
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Dear	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Dear	punct
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 what	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 he	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thought	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fool	det
12	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fool	amod
13	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 what	nsubj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 be	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 be	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 fool	acl:relcl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 crack	punct
18	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 crack	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 crack	advmod
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 crack	advmod
21	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 fool	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 nut	det
23	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 crack	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 tailor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tailor	det
31	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 say	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 say	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 say	nsubj
35	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 said	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 crack	punct
37	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 say	conj
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 nuts	nmod:poss
39	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 crack	obj
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 crack	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 will	punct
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 crack	advcl
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 will	nsubj
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not crack	can		a nut			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	bear		the tailor		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to tailor=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	crack	infinitive	I not said here	my nuts		for me	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=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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