The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 45

The giant laid the trunk on his shoulder, but the tailor sat at his ease among the branches; and the giant, who couldn’t see what was going on behind him, had to carry the whole tree, and the little tailor into the bargain.

Who acts: giant, tailor · What happens: lay, sit, not see, go on, have, carry · To what, where: trunk, shoulder, ease, whole tree · 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 (giant, 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 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shoulder	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulder	nmod:poss
8	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tailor	det
12	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 ease	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ease	nmod:poss
16	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 branches	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 branches	det
19	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sat	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 giant	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 giant	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 giant	det
23	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laid	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 see	advmod
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 giant	parataxis
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 going	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 going	aux
31	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 see	ccomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 going	compound:prt
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 going	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 see	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 carry	mark
38	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	xcomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tree	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tree	amod
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 carry	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 tailor	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 tailor	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tailor	det
45	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 tailor	amod
46	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	parataxis
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 bargain	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 bargain	det
49	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the giant	the trunk	tailor's shoulder	into the bargain	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme on shoulder=Destination
2	sit	past	the tailor		tailor's ease	among the branches	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location
3	not see	could					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go on	past · progressive				behind tailor	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=Location
5	have	past					tree rules
6	carry	to-infinitive		the whole tree			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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