The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 59

The little tailor looked about him, and thought: “Yes, there’s certainly more room to turn round in here than in my workshop.”

Who acts: little tailor · What happens: look, think, turn round · 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 (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	3 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 ’s	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 ’s	punct
12	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	15 ’s	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Yes	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 ’s	expl
15	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	ccomp
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 room	amod
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ’s	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 turn	mark
20	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 room	acl
21	round	round	ADV	_	20 turn	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 here	case
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 turn	advmod
24	than	than	ADP	_	27 workshop	case
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 workshop	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 workshop	nmod:poss
27	workshop	workshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 here	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ’s	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	past	the little tailor	about friend	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the little tailor not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn round in a quote	to-infinitive	the little tailor not said here	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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