The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 56

The giant made an attempt, but couldn’t get over the tree, and stuck fast in the branches, so that here too the little tailor had the better of him.

Who acts: giant, little tailor · What happens: make, not get, stick, have · To what, where: attempt, tree, branches

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 (giant, little tailor), 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 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 attempt	det
5	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stuck	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stuck	cc
16	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 made	parataxis
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 stuck	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 branches	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 branches	det
20	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stuck	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 here	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	24 here	case
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stuck	conj
25	too	too	ADV	_	24 here	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tailor	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tailor	amod
28	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 here	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 better	det
31	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 had	xcomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 better	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the giant	a attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product
2	not get	could			the tree		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over tree=Destination
3	stick	participle			the branches	fast property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in branch=Destination
4	have	past	the little tailor			good property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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