The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 14

At last the little tailor, losing all patience, reached out of his chimney corner for a duster, and exclaiming: “Wait, and I’ll give it to you,” he beat them mercilessly with it.

Who acts: last little tailor, I, tailor · What happens: lose, reach out, exclaim, wait, give, beat · To what, where: patience, chimney corner, you, flies · 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 (last little tailor, I, 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 tailor	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tailor	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tailor	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tailor	amod
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 losing	punct
7	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tailor	acl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 patience	det
9	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 losing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tailor	punct
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	16 corner	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 corner	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 corner	nmod:poss
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 corner	compound
16	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 duster	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 duster	det
19	duster	duster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 corner	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 exclaiming	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 exclaiming	cc
22	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 reached	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Wait	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Wait	punct
25	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 exclaiming	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 give	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
29	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Wait	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 give	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Wait	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 Wait	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 beat	nsubj
37	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 reached	parataxis
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 beat	obj
39	mercilessly	mercilessly	ADV	_	37 beat	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 beat	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund	the last little tailor not said here	all patience			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
2	reach out	past		tailor's chimney corner for a duster		at the last little tailor	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent corner=Theme at tailor=Asset
3	exclaim speech: express	gerund					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wait in a quote	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give in a quote	future	I	patience	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient
6	beat	past	tailor	flies = fly		with patience; mercilessly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with it=Instrument

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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