The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 50

They continued to go on their way together, and as they passed by a cherry tree the giant grasped the top of it, where the ripest fruit hung, gave the branches into the tailor’s hand, and bade him eat.

Who acts: drops, giant · What happens: continue, go, pass, grasp, hang, give · To what, where: way, top, ripest fruit, branches, hand, bade

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 (drops, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 continued	nsubj
2	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 continued	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	together	together	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 passed	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 passed	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 passed	nsubj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 continued	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
16	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tree	compound
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grasped	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 giant	det
19	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grasped	nsubj
20	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 top	det
22	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grasped	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 top	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hung	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 hung	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fruit	det
28	ripest	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 fruit	amod
29	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hung	nsubj:pass
30	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 top	acl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grasped	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 branches	det
34	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gave	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	39 hand	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tailor	det
37	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 hand	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 tailor	case
39	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 eat	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 eat	cc
42	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 eat	obl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 bade	obj
44	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 continued	parataxis
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	drops = drop				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go	to-infinitive	drops = drop not said here		drops's way	together property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3	pass	past	drops = drop				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grasp	past	the giant	the top of tree		by a cherry tree	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Stimulus
5	hang	participle · passive		the ripest fruit			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	give	past	the giant not said here	the branches	the tailor's hand		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
7	eat	present		bade			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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