The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 32

So the tailor gave him some more pebbles, and the bear bit and gnawed away as hard as he could, but I need hardly say that he did not succeed in cracking one of them.

Who acts: tailor, I, bear · What happens: give, gnaw, need, say, not succeed, crack · To what, where: more pebbles, bear, one · 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, I, bear), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 pebbles	det
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 pebbles	amod
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gave	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hard	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bit	det
12	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	compound
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hard	obl:unmarked
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gnawed	cc
15	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bit	conj
16	away	away	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 could	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 could	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 hard	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 need	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 need	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 need	nsubj
25	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	27 say	advmod
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 need	xcomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 succeed	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 succeed	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 succeed	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 succeed	advmod
32	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 say	ccomp
33	in	in	SCONJ	_	34 cracking	mark
34	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 succeed	advcl
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 cracking	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 one	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the tailor	some more pebbles	bear		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pebble=Theme
2	gnaw	participle	the tailor not said here				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	need	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	present	I not said here			hardly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not succeed	past · do-support	bear				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	crack	gerund	bear not said here	one of tailors			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=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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