The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 41
“Well, what do you think of that little piece of business, friend?” asked the tailor.
Who acts: you, tailor · What happens: think, ask · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 think | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 think | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 piece | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 piece | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 piece | amod |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 business | case |
| 13 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 friend | punct |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tailor | det |
| 20 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | of that little piece of business and friend | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the tailor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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