The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 12

“Ha! who invited you?” said the tailor, and chased the unwelcome guests away.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: invite, say, chase · To what, where: you, unwelcome guests · 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), 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 invited	punct
2	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	5 invited	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ha	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 invited	nsubj
5	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 invited	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 invited	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 invited	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tailor	det
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chased	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chased	cc
14	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 guests	det
16	unwelcome	unwelcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 guests	compound
17	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 chased	obj
18	away	away	ADV	_	14 chased	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	invite in a quote	past			you		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	say speech: ask	past	the tailor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	chase	past	the tailor not said here	the unwelcome guests		away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme

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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