The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 44

“Most certainly,” said the little tailor: “just you take the trunk on your shoulder; I’ll bear the top and branches, which is certainly the heaviest part.”

Who acts: Most, you, top · What happens: say, take, bear, be · To what, where: little tailor, trunk, shoulder, top, heaviest part · 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 (Most, you, top), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 said	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Most	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tailor	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tailor	amod
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 take	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
14	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trunk	det
16	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 shoulder	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shoulder	nmod:poss
19	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bear	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bear	nsubj
22	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bear	aux
23	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 top	det
25	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bear	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 branches	cc
27	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 top	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 part	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 part	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 part	cop
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	34 part	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 part	det
33	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 part	amod
34	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 top	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Most	the little tailor			tree rules
2	take in a quote	present	you	the trunk	your shoulder		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme on shoulder=Destination
3	bear in a quote	future	Most	the top and branches and the heaviest part			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient
4	is a in a quote	present	the top and branches and the heaviest part	the heaviest part		certainly property	tree rules

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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