The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 33

“Is that all?” said the little tailor; “that’s child’s play to me,” so he dived into his wallet, brought out the cheese, and pressed it till the whey ran out.

Who acts: little tailor, that, play, wallet, whey · What happens: be, dive, bring out, press, run out · To what, where: play, wallet, cheese · 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 (little tailor, that, play, wallet), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 said	ccomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tailor	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tailor	amod
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 play	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 play	nsubj
14	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 play	cop
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 play	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 child	case
17	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dived	nsubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 play	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 me	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 play	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 dived	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dived	nsubj
24	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 wallet	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wallet	nmod:poss
27	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dived	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 brought	punct
29	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 wallet	acl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 brought	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cheese	det
32	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 brought	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pressed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 pressed	cc
35	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pressed	obj
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	40 ran	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 whey	det
39	whey	whey	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ran	nsubj
40	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pressed	advcl
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 ran	compound:prt
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	present	the little tailor			say property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	that	child's play			tree rules
3	dive	past	child's play		tailor's wallet		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wallet=Location
4	bring out	participle	tailor's wallet not said here	the cheese			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient
5	press	past		cheese			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	run out	past	the whey				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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