The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 1

One summer’s day a little tailor sat on his table by the window in the best of spirits, and sewed for dear life.

Who acts: day · What happens: sit, sew · To what, where: table

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 summer	nummod
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 summer	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tailor	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tailor	amod
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 table	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 table	nmod:poss
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 best	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 best	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 sat	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 spirits	case
19	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 best	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sewed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sewed	cc
22	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 life	case
24	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 life	amod
25	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sewed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	One summer's day			tailor's table		by the window; in the best of spirits	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
2	sew	past	One summer's day not said here					for dear life	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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