The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 30

The giant read: “Seven at a blow”; and thinking they were human beings the tailor had slain, he conceived a certain respect for the little man.

Who acts: human beings, bushes, giant read · What happens: think, be, slay, conceive · To what, where: human beings, tailor, certain respect

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 (human beings, bushes, giant read), 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	3 read	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 read	amod
3	read	read	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 conceived	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Seven	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Seven	punct
6	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 read	appos
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 blow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 blow	det
9	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Seven	nmod
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Seven	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 conceived	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 conceived	cc
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 conceived	advcl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beings	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beings	cop
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beings	amod
17	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thinking	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tailor	det
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 slain	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 slain	aux
21	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 beings	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 conceived	nsubj
24	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 respect	det
26	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 respect	amod
27	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 conceived	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 man	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 respect	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 conceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	human beings			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	bushes = bush	human beings		tree rules
3	slay	past · perfect · passive	human beings not said here	the tailor		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	conceive	past	the giant read	a certain respect	for the little man	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme

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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