The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 118
“Willingly,” said the tailor; “that’s mere child’s play.”
Who acts: tailor, mere child · What happens: say, play · 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 (tailor, mere child), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Willingly | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Willingly | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tailor | det |
| 7 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’s | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 ’s | nsubj |
| 11 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 child | amod |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 play | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 child | case |
| 15 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ’s | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the tailor | willingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play in a quote | mere child | nom play «communication intransitive»: 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 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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