The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 51

But the little tailor was far too weak to hold the tree down, and when the giant let go the tree swung back into the air, bearing the little tailor with it.

Who acts: little tailor, giant let, tree · What happens: be, hold down, go, swing back, bear · To what, where: tree, air, little tailor

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 (little tailor, giant let, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 weak	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tailor	amod
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weak	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weak	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 weak	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 weak	advmod
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hold	mark
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 weak	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	10 hold	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 go	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 let	det
18	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 let	amod
19	let	let	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	nsubj
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 hold	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swung	nsubj
23	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 go	ccomp
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 swung	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swung	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bearing	punct
29	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 swung	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tailor	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tailor	amod
32	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bearing	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bearing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 weak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little tailor			far, weak property	tree rules
2	hold down	to-infinitive	the little tailor not said here	the tree			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	go	infinitive	the giant let				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swing back	past	the tree		the air		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory
5	bear	gerund	the tree not said here	the little tailor		with tree	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Patient

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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