The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 49

The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both hands as if he had carried it the whole way and said to the giant: “Fancy a big lout like you not being able to carry a tree!”

Who acts: tailor, giant · What happens: spring, seize, carry, say, fancy, not be · To what, where: tree, giant, big lout · 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, giant), 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 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 sprang	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hands	det
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seized	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 carried	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 carried	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carried	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 carried	aux
17	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 seized	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carried	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carried	obl:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 giant	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 giant	det
26	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Fancy	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Fancy	punct
29	Fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 lout	det
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lout	amod
32	lout	lout	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Fancy	obj
33	like	like	SCONJ	_	37 able	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 able	nsubj
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 able	advmod
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 able	cop
37	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Fancy	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 carry	mark
39	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 able	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tree	det
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carry	obj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 Fancy	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 Fancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the tailor			down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past	the tailor not said here	the tree		with both hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	carry	past · perfect	tailor	tree		the whole way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	the tailor not said here		the giant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to giant=Recipient clause=Topic
5	fancy in a quote	infinitive		a big lout			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lout=Stimulus
6	not is in a quote	gerund	the giant = giant			able property	tree rules
7	carry in a quote	to-infinitive	the giant = giant not said here	a 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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