The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 31

But first he thought he’d test him, so taking up a stone in his hand, he squeezed it till some drops of water ran out.

Who acts: tailor, drops · What happens: think, have, test, take up, squeeze, run out · To what, where: tailor, stone, hand · 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, drops), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 thought	cc
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 thought	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ’d	nsubj
6	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ’d	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 test	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taking	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 taking	advmod
11	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thought	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 taking	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hand	nmod:poss
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 squeezed	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 squeezed	nsubj
20	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 squeezed	obj
22	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 ran	mark
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 drops	det
24	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ran	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drops	nmod
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 squeezed	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 ran	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	tailor			first property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	tailor				tree rules
3	test	infinitive	tailor not said here	tailor			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	take up	gerund	tailor not said here	a stone	tailor's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in hand=Location
5	squeeze	past	tailor	stone			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	run out	past	some drops of water				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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