The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 10
He placed the bread beside him, went on sewing, and out of the lightness of his heart kept on making his stitches bigger and bigger.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: place, go, keep, make · To what, where: bread, lightness, sewing, heart, stitches
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 (tailor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bread | det |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sewing | case |
| 10 | sewing | sewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lightness | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lightness | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 lightness | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lightness | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lightness | det |
| 16 | lightness | lightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lightness | nmod |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 heart | acl |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 making | mark |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 kept | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 stitches | nmod:poss |
| 24 | stitches | stitch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 making | obj |
| 25 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 making | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bigger | cc |
| 27 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 bigger | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | tailor | the bread | the lightness of tailor's heart | beside him = he | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bread=Theme beside he=Destination | ||
| 2 | go | past | tailor not said here | sewing | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sewing=Location | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle | tailor's heart not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | tailor's stitches | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=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 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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