The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 136
So the little tailor was and remained a king all the days of his life.
Who acts: little tailor · What happens: be
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 remained | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tailor | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tailor | amod |
| 4 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 remained | cop |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 remained | cc |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remained | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 days | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 days | det |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 remained | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 days | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the little tailor | day | remain property | 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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