The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 58

The little tailor willingly consented to do this, and following his friend they went on till they reached a cave where several other giants were sitting round a fire, each holding a roast sheep in his hand, of which he was eating.

Who acts: huntsmen, several other giants, each, tailor · What happens: consent, do, follow, go on, reach, sit · To what, where: little tailor, this, following friend, cave, roast sheep, hand

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 (huntsmen, several other giants, each, 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	3 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	5 consented	advmod
5	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tailor	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 consented	xcomp
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 friend	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 friend	cc
11	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 friend	amod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tailor	appos
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 friend	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	19 reached	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reached	nsubj
19	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cave	det
21	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reached	obj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 sitting	advmod
23	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 giants	amod
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 giants	amod
25	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sitting	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sitting	aux
27	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 cave	acl:relcl
28	round	round	ADP	_	30 fire	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fire	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sitting	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 holding	punct
32	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	33 holding	nsubj
33	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 sitting	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sheep	det
35	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sheep	compound
36	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 holding	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 hand	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hand	nmod:poss
39	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 holding	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 eating	punct
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 eating	obl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 eating	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 eating	aux
45	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 sitting	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tailor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	participle		the little tailor not said here		willingly property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive		this			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
3	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go on	past	huntsmen = huntsman	tailor's following friend not said here			tree rules
5	reach	past	huntsmen = huntsman	a cave			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cave=Theme
6	sit	past · progressive	several other giants			round a fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hold	gerund	each	a roast sheep	tailor's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in hand=Location
8	eat	past · progressive	tailor				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source

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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