The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 125

Had he known that no hero-warrior, but only a little tailor stood before him, it would have gone even more to his heart.

Who acts: hero, little tailor, warrior · What happens: know, stand, go · To what, where: hero warrior, heart

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 (hero, little tailor, warrior), 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	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 known	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 known	nsubj
3	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 warrior	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 warrior	det
6	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warrior	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hero	punct
8	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 known	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 stood	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 tailor	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tailor	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tailor	amod
14	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 known	parataxis
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stood	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gone	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 stood	conj
23	even	even	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 gone	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 heart	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	know	past · perfect	hero	no hero warrior			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	stand	past	a little tailor			before hero	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	go	would · perfect	warrior		hero's heart		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location

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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