The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 61
But the bed was too big for the little tailor, so he didn’t get into it, but crept away into the corner.
Who acts: bed, tailor · What happens: be, not get, creep away · To what, where: bade, corner
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 (bed, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 big | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bed | det |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 big | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 big | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 tailor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tailor | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tailor | amod |
| 10 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 big | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 get | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 get | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 big | parataxis |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crept | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 crept | cc |
| 21 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 crept | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 corner | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 corner | det |
| 25 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crept | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bed | for the little tailor; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get | past · do-support | tailor | bade | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | creep away | past | tailor not said here | the corner | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination |
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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