The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 133

The little tailor, who had only pretended to be asleep, began to call out in a clear voice: “My lad, make that waistcoat and patch those trousers, or I’ll box your ears.

Who acts: little tailor, lad, wife · What happens: pretend, be, begin, call out, make, box · To what, where: little tailor, clear voice, waistcoat · 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 (little tailor, lad, wife), 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	3 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pretended	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 pretended	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pretended	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 pretended	advmod
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tailor	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 asleep	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 asleep	cop
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pretended	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tailor	punct
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 call	mark
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 call	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 voice	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 voice	det
19	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 voice	amod
20	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 call	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
23	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lad	nmod:poss
24	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lad	punct
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	parataxis
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 waistcoat	det
28	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 patch	cc
30	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 waistcoat	conj
31	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	32 trousers	det
32	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 make	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 box	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 box	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 box	nsubj
36	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 box	aux
37	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	parataxis
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 ears	nmod:poss
39	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 box	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · perfect · passive		the little tailor			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive				asleep property	tree rules
3	begin	past	the little tailor				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	call out speech: assert	to-infinitive	the little tailor not said here		a clear voice		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make in a quote	infinitive	My lad	that waistcoat and patch			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset waistcoat=Beneficiary trousers=Product
6	box in a quote	future	wife				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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