The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 3

This sounded sweetly in the tailor’s ears; he put his frail little head out of the window, and shouted: “up here, my good woman, and you’ll find a willing customer.”

Who acts: This, tailor, you · What happens: sound, put, shout, find · To what, where: ears, frail little head, window, willing customer · 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 (This, tailor, you), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sounded	nsubj
2	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	2 sounded	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 ears	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ears	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 tailor	case
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sounded	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sounded	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
13	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 head	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 head	amod
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 window	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shouted	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shouted	cc
22	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sounded	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 here	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 here	punct
25	up	up	ADV	_	26 here	advmod
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 shouted	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 woman	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 woman	nmod:poss
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 here	vocative
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 find	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 find	cc
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
34	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sounded	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 customer	det
37	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 customer	amod
38	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 find	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 find	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	This		the tailor's ears	sweetly property	tree rules
2	put	past	tailor	tailor's frail little head	the window		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination
3	shout speech: express	past	This not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find in a quote	future	you	a willing customer			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=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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