The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 62

At midnight, when the giant thought the little tailor was fast asleep, he rose up, and taking his big iron walking-stick, he broke the bed in two with a blow, and thought he had made an end of the little grasshopper.

Who acts: giant, little tailor, tailor · What happens: think, be, rise up, take, break, make · To what, where: big iron walking stick, bed, two, end · 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 (giant, little tailor, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 midnight	case
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 midnight	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 thought	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	13 asleep	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asleep	cop
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 asleep	advmod
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rose	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rose	nsubj
16	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 rose	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 taking	cc
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 rose	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 stick	nmod:poss
22	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stick	amod
23	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stick	compound
24	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stick	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 walking	punct
26	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broke	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 broke	nsubj
29	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bed	det
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broke	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 two	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 broke	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 blow	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 blow	det
36	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broke	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thought	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thought	cc
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	parataxis
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 made	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 made	aux
42	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 thought	ccomp
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 end	det
44	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 grasshopper	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 grasshopper	det
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 grasshopper	amod
48	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 end	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the giant			midnight		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the little tailor				asleep, fast property	tree rules
3	rise up	past	tailor					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	gerund	tailor not said here	tailor's big iron walking stick				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
5	break	past	tailor	the bed	two		with a blow	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bed=Patient with blow=Instrument
6	think speech: other	past						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	make	past · perfect	tailor	a end of the little grasshopper				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product

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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