The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 5

The third tailor was a lazy young scamp who did not even know his own trade properly, but who thought that surely luck would stand by him now, just for once, for, if not, what _was_ to become of him?

Who acts: third tailor, lazy young scamp, luck, thought · What happens: be, not know, think, stand, become, trade · To what, where: lazy young scamp, own trade · 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 (third tailor, lazy young scamp, luck, thought), 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	3 tailor	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scamp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scamp	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 scamp	det
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scamp	amod
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scamp	amod
8	scamp	scamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 know	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 scamp	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 trade	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 trade	amod
16	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
17	properly	properly	ADV	_	13 know	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scamp	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 stand	mark
23	surely	surely	ADV	_	24 luck	advmod
24	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 stand	aux
26	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stand	obl
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 stand	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 once	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 once	advmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 stand	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 become	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 not	mark
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 for	punct
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 not	mark
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 become	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 not	punct
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 become	nsubj
41	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 what	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 _	cop
43	_	_	PUNCT	_	40 what	punct
44	to	to	PART	_	45 become	mark
45	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stand	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 become	obl
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 scamp	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the third tailor	a lazy young scamp			tree rules
2	not know	past · do-support	a lazy young scamp	thought's own trade		properly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trade=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	a lazy young scamp				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stand	would	luck		now	by thought; once property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location
5	become	to-infinitive				of thought	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	trade		thought				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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