The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 39
He dived into his wallet again, and grasping the bird in his hand, he threw it up into the air.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: dive, grasp, throw up · To what, where: wallet, bird, hand, air
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dived | nsubj |
| 2 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 wallet | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dived | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 dived | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grasping | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grasping | cc |
| 9 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 dived | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grasping | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grasping | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threw | nsubj |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dived | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threw | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 threw | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 air | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 air | det |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past | tailor | tailor's wallet | again | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wallet=Location | |||
| 2 | grasp | gerund | tailor not said here | the bird | tailor's hand | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | throw up | past | tailor | bird | the air | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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