The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 7

But the little tailor was not to be daunted, and said he had set his mind on it and meant to shift for himself, so off he started as though the whole world belonged to him.

Who acts: thought, whole world · What happens: not be, say, set, mean, shift, start · To what, where: little tailor, thought, mind · 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 (thought, whole world), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 daunted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tailor	amod
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 daunted	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 daunted	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 daunted	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	9 daunted	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 daunted	aux:pass
9	daunted	daunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 daunted	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	aux
15	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mind	nmod:poss
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 meant	cc
21	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 shift	mark
23	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 meant	xcomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 himself	case
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 shift	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 started	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 started	advmod
28	off	off	ADP	_	30 started	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 started	nsubj
30	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
31	as	as	ADV	_	30 started	advmod
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	36 belonged	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 world	amod
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 belonged	nsubj
36	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 started	advcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 belonged	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 daunted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past · passive		the little tailor			daunt property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	set	past · perfect · passive		thought		mind		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mind=Destination
4	mean	past						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	shift not said to happen	to-infinitive					for thought	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	start	past	thought					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	belong	past	the whole world		thought			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
8	mind		thought					nom mind «cognition 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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