The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 29

‘You’re a nice sort of fellow,’ said the tailor; ‘the idea of having those great jaws and not being able even to crack a walnut!’

Who acts: You, idea · What happens: be, say, have, not be, crack, sort · To what, where: nice sort, tailor, great jaws, walnut, fellow · 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 (You, idea), 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	_	3 ’re	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 ’re	nsubj
3	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sort	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sort	amod
6	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ’re	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fellow	case
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sort	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’re	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’re	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tailor	det
13	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 idea	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 idea	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 idea	det
17	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 having	mark
19	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 idea	acl
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 jaws	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 jaws	amod
22	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 having	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 able	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 able	advmod
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 able	cop
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 having	conj
27	even	even	ADV	_	29 crack	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 crack	mark
29	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 walnut	det
31	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crack	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 idea	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 idea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	does	present	You	a nice sort of fellow		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the tailor		tree rules
3	have	gerund	the idea not said here	that great jaws		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient
4	not is	gerund	the idea not said here		able property	tree rules
5	crack	to-infinitive	the idea not said here	a walnut		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walnut=Theme
6	sort			fellow		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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