The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 17

“The whole town must know about this”; and in great haste the little tailor cut out a girdle, hemmed it, and embroidered on it in big letters, “Seven at a blow.”

Who acts: whole town, little tailor · What happens: know, cut out, hem, embroider · To what, where: girdle, great haste, town · 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 (whole town, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 town	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 know	obl
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 hemmed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hemmed	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 haste	case
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 haste	amod
14	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hemmed	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tailor	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tailor	amod
17	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 haste	appos
18	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 tailor	acl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 cut	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girdle	det
21	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cut	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 haste	punct
23	hemmed	hem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hemmed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 embroidered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 embroidered	cc
27	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hemmed	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 embroidered	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 letters	case
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 letters	amod
32	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 embroidered	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Seven	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 Seven	punct
35	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 letters	appos
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 blow	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 blow	det
38	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Seven	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	must	the whole town			about this	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cut out	participle	the little tailor not said here	a girdle			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector girdle=Eventuality
3	hem	past		girdle	great haste		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	embroider	participle			town	in big letters	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination

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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