The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 6
The two others said to him, ‘You just stay at home, you’ll never get on much with your small allowance of brains.’
Who acts: two others, You, your · What happens: say, stay, 'll, not get on, allowance · To what, where: thought, home, brains · 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 (two others, You, your), 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 others | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 others | nummod |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 stay | punct |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 stay | advmod |
| 11 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’ll | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ’ll | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stay | conj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 get | advmod |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 ’ll | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 20 much | advmod |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 get | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 allowance | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 allowance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 allowance | amod |
| 24 | allowance | allowance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 much | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 brains | case |
| 26 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 allowance | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the two others | thought | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | You | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 3 | 'll | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not get on | present | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | allowance | your | brains | nom allowance «possession transitive»: poss=agent 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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