The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 103

“It’s a mercy,” he said, “that they didn’t root up the tree on which I was perched, or I should have had to jump like a squirrel on to another, which, nimble though I am, would have been no easy job.”

Who acts: tree, tailor, horsemen · What happens: be, say, not root up, perch, have, jump · To what, where: mercy, tree, tailor, another, easy job · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tree, tailor, horsemen), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 mercy	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mercy	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mercy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mercy	det
5	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mercy	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 mercy	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 root	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 root	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 root	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 root	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 root	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 root	advmod
16	root	root	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 root	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 root	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 perched	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 perched	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 perched	aux:pass
24	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tree	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 had	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	aux
30	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 perched	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 jump	mark
32	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 squirrel	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 squirrel	det
35	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 jump	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 another	case
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 another	case
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 jump	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 nimble	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 nimble	nsubj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 nimble	punct
42	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 jump	conj
43	though	though	SCONJ	_	45 am	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 am	nsubj
45	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 nimble	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 job	punct
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 job	aux
48	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 job	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 job	cop
50	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	52 job	det
51	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 job	amod
52	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 root	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	tree	a mercy			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	tailor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not root up in a quote	past · do-support	horsemen = horseman	the tree			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
4	perch in a quote	past · passive		tailor	the tree		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination
5	have in a quote	should · perfect	tailor				tree rules
6	jump in a quote	to-infinitive	tailor not said here		another	like a squirrel	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on another=Trajectory
7	is a in a quote	would · perfect	horsemen = horseman not said here	no easy job			tree rules

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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