The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 46

There he sat behind in the best of spirits, lustily whistling a tune, as if carrying the tree were mere sport.

Who acts: tailor, tree · What happens: sit, whistle, carry, be · To what, where: best, tune, mere sport

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, tree), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 best	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 best	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 sat	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 spirits	case
9	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 best	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whistling	punct
11	lustily	lustily	ADV	_	12 whistling	advmod
12	whistling	whistle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tune	det
14	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whistling	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carrying	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 carrying	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 carrying	mark
18	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sport	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sport	cop
22	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sport	amod
23	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carrying	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	tailor		the best of spirits; there	behind property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in good=Location
2	whistle	gerund	tailor not said here	a tune		lustily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic
3	carry	gerund	tailor not said here				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the tree	mere sport			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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