The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 5

He examined them all, lifted them up and smelled them, and said at last: “This jam seems good, weigh me four ounces of it, my good woman; and even if it’s a quarter of a pound I won’t stick at it.”

Who acts: tailor, jam, row, I · What happens: examine, lift up, smell, say, seem, weigh · To what, where: pots, last, me, quarter, row · 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, jam, row, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 examined	nsubj
2	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 examined	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 them	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lifted	punct
6	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 examined	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lifted	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 lifted	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 smelled	cc
10	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smelled	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lifted	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 seems	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 seems	punct
19	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 jam	det
20	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seems	nsubj
21	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seems	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 weigh	punct
24	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seems	xcomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 weigh	obj
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 ounces	nummod
27	ounces	ounce	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 weigh	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ounces	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 woman	punct
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 woman	nmod:poss
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 woman	amod
33	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 weigh	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 quarter	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 quarter	cc
36	even	even	ADV	_	41 quarter	advmod
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 quarter	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 quarter	nsubj
39	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 quarter	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 quarter	det
41	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 examined	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 pound	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 pound	det
44	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stick	obl
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 stick	nsubj
46	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 stick	aux
47	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	48 stick	advmod
48	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 quarter	conj
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 it	case
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 stick	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 stick	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 quarter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	examine	past	tailor	pots = pot			tree rules
2	lift up	past	tailor not said here	pots = pot			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	smell	past	tailor not said here	pots = pot			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past			last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	seem in a quote	present	this jam			good property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	weigh in a quote	infinitive	this jam not said here	me		my good woman obl	tree rules
7	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	row	a quarter			tree rules
8	not stick in a quote	future	I		row	of a pound	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent at it=Destination

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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