The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 38

“Well thrown,” said the tailor; “but, after all, your stone fell to the ground; I’ll throw one that won’t come down at all.”

Who acts: tailor, stone, play, one · What happens: throw, say, fall, not come down · To what, where: all · 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, stone, play, one), 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	_	3 thrown	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 thrown	discourse
3	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thrown	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thrown	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tailor	det
8	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 thrown	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 but	punct
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 all	punct
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 stone	nmod:poss
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thrown	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 throw	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 throw	nsubj
24	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 throw	aux
25	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thrown	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 come	nsubj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 come	nsubj
28	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 come	advmod
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 throw	ccomp
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 all	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thrown	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw in a quote	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the tailor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	fall in a quote	past	your stone		after all	to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
4	throw in a quote	future	play				tree rules
5	not come down in a quote	future	one	all		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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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