The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 43
With these words he led the tailor to a huge oak tree which had been felled to the ground, and said: “If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the wood.”
Who acts: tailor, you · What happens: lead, fell, say, be, help, carry · To what, where: tailor, huge oak tree, tree, wood · 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, you), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tailor | det |
| 7 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 11 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 felled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 felled | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 felled | aux:pass |
| 16 | felled | fell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tree | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 help | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 help | punct |
| 25 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 strong | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 strong | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 strong | cop |
| 28 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 help | advcl |
| 29 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 28 strong | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 strong | punct |
| 31 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 help | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 carry | mark |
| 34 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 help | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tree | det |
| 36 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carry | obj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 wood | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 wood | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wood | det |
| 40 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carry | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 help | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | tailor | the tailor | a huge oak tree | with this words | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tailor=Theme to tree=Destination | ||
| 2 | fell | past · perfect · passive | a huge oak tree | to the ground | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | tailor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | help in a quote | infinitive | tailor | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | tailor not said here | the tree | the wood | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme out wood=Initial_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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