The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 19
The tailor strapped the girdle round his waist and set out into the wide world, for he considered his workroom too small a field for his prowess.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: strap, set out, consider · To what, where: girdle, wide world, workroom
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strapped | nsubj |
| 3 | strapped | strap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girdle | det |
| 5 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strapped | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 waist | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 waist | nmod:poss |
| 8 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strapped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strapped | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 considered | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 considered | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 considered | nsubj |
| 19 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strapped | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 workroom | nmod:poss |
| 21 | workroom | workroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 considered | obj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 small | advmod |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 considered | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 field | det |
| 25 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 small | nsubj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 prowess | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 prowess | nmod:poss |
| 28 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 small | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strap | past | the tailor | the girdle | round tailor's waist | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Patient | |||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | the tailor not said here | the wide world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | consider | past | tailor | tailor's workroom | small property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent workroom=Attribute |
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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