The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 27

The giant looked contemptuously at the tailor, and said: “What a poor wretched little creature you are!”

Who acts: giant · What happens: look, say · 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 (giant), 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 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	contemptuously	contemptuously	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 tailor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tailor	det
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 creature	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 creature	punct
13	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	18 creature	det
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 creature	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 creature	amod
16	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 creature	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 creature	amod
18	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 are	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 creature	acl:relcl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 creature	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 creature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the giant					at the tailor; contemptuously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tailor=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the giant not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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