The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 2

As he was sitting thus a peasant woman came down the street, calling out: “Good jam to sell, good jam to sell.”

Who acts: tailor, peasant woman · What happens: sit, come down, call out, sell · To what, where: street · 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 (tailor, peasant woman), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 sitting	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 sitting	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	12 street	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 street	det
12	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 calling	punct
14	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 calling	compound:prt
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 jam	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 jam	punct
18	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 jam	amod
19	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 calling	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sell	mark
21	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 jam	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 jam	punct
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 jam	amod
24	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jam	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sell	mark
26	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 jam	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	tailor		thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come down	past	a peasant woman	the street		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme
3	call out speech: assert	gerund	a peasant woman not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sell in a quote	to-infinitive	a peasant woman not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	sell in a quote	to-infinitive	a peasant woman not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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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