The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 4

The woman climbed up the three flights of stairs with her heavy basket to the tailor’s room, and he made her spread out all the pots in a row before him.

Who acts: woman, tailor · What happens: climb up, make, spread out · To what, where: three flights, woman, pots, row

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 (woman, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climbed	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flights	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 flights	nummod
7	flights	flight	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climbed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stairs	case
9	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flights	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 basket	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 basket	nmod:poss
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 basket	amod
13	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tailor	det
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 room	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 tailor	case
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climbed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	xcomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 spread	compound:prt
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 pots	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pots	det
28	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spread	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 row	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 row	det
31	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pots	nmod
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spread	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the woman	the three flights of stairs			with woman's heavy basket; to the tailor's room result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient flight=Extent to room=Result
2	make	past	tailor	woman				tree rules
3	spread out	infinitive	woman not said here	all pots	a row	before tailor		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme before he=Destination

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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