The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 41

Dear me, your nails are terribly long; I must really cut them first.’

Who acts: me, I · What happens: be, cut · To what, where: nails

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 (me, 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 long	amod
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 long	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nails	nmod:poss
5	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 long	cop
7	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cut	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 cut	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cut	aux
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 cut	advmod
13	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 long	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cut	obj
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 cut	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	me					long, terribly property	tree rules
2	cut	must	I	nails = nail				first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product

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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