The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 117
The tailor was to catch a wild boar for him that did a great deal of harm in the wood; and he might have the huntsmen to help him.
Who acts: tailor, huntsmen · What happens: be, do, have, help, deal · To what, where: great deal, huntsmen, tailor, harm
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, huntsmen), 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 | 2 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 catch | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 catch | mark |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boar | det |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boar | amod |
| 8 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catch | obj |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 did | mark |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 catch | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 harm | case |
| 17 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deal | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 harm | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 catch | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 huntsmen | det |
| 27 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 help | mark |
| 29 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 have | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 help | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tailor | catch property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | tailor | a great deal of harm in the wood | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | might | tailor | the huntsmen | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | the huntsmen not said here | tailor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | deal | harm in the wood | nom deal «act transitive»: 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 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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