The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 63

At early dawn the giants went off to the wood, and quite forgot about the little tailor, till all of a sudden they met him trudging along in the most cheerful manner.

Who acts: giants, sudden · What happens: go off, forget, meet, trudge · To what, where: tailor, cheerful manner

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 (giants, sudden), 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	_	3 dawn	case
2	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dawn	amod
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giants	det
5	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forgot	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 forgot	cc
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 forgot	advmod
14	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 tailor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tailor	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tailor	amod
18	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 forgot	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
20	till	till	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 forgot	obl
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 met	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sudden	det
24	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 met	nsubj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 met	nsubj
26	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 all	acl:relcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 met	obj
28	trudging	trudge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 met	advcl
29	along	along	ADV	_	28 trudging	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 manner	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 manner	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 cheerful	advmod
33	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 manner	amod
34	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trudging	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the giants			dawn	to the wood	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	forget	past	the giants not said here			till all	about the little tailor	tree rules
3	meet	past	a sudden	tailor				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	trudge	gerund	a sudden not said here		the cheerful manner		along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Trajectory

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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