The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 52

When he had fallen to the ground again without hurting himself, the giant said: “What! do you mean to tell me you haven’t the strength to hold down a feeble twig?”

Who acts: tailor, giant, you · What happens: fall, hurt, say, mean, tell, have · To what, where: tailor, giant, strength, feeble twig · 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, you), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 fallen	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fallen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fallen	aux
4	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fallen	obl
8	again	again	ADV	_	4 fallen	advmod
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 hurting	mark
10	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fallen	advcl
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 hurting	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fallen	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 mean	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 mean	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 mean	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 What	punct
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mean	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 mean	nsubj
22	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 mean	xcomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	ccomp
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 strength	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 strength	det
30	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 hold	mark
32	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 strength	acl
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 hold	compound:prt
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 twig	det
35	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 twig	amod
36	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hold	obj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 mean	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	tailor			again	to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
2	hurt	gerund	tailor not said here	tailor				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient
3	say speech: ask	past	the giant					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	mean in a quote	present · do-support	you					tree rules
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		the giant = giant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	have in a quote	present	you	the strength				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
7	hold down in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	a feeble twig				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=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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