The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 28

“That’s a good joke,” answered the little tailor, and unbuttoning his coat he showed the giant the girdle.

Who acts: That, good joke, joke · What happens: be, answer, unbutton, show · To what, where: good joke, little tailor, coat, girdle, giant · 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 (That, good joke, joke), 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 joke	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 joke	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 joke	amod
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tailor	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tailor	amod
12	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 showed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 showed	cc
15	unbuttoning	unbutton	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 showed	csubj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 coat	nmod:poss
17	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 unbuttoning	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 showed	nsubj
19	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 giant	det
21	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 showed	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 girdle	det
23	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 showed	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a good joke		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	a good joke		the little tailor	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tailor=Eventuality
3	unbutton	gerund		tailor's coat		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
4	show	past	joke	the girdle	the giant	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient girdle=Topic

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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