The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 65
The little tailor continued to follow his nose, and after he had wandered about for a long time he came to the courtyard of a royal palace, and feeling tired he lay down on the grass and fell asleep.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: continue, follow, wander, come, feel, lie down · To what, where: little tailor, nose, long time, grass
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 (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 | 14 wandered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tailor | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 follow | mark |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continued | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wandered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wandered | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 wandered | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wandered | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wandered | aux |
| 14 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 wandered | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wandered | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 courtyard | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 courtyard | det |
| 24 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 palace | amod |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 courtyard | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lay | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lay | cc |
| 31 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 lay | csubj |
| 32 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 feeling | xcomp |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wandered | parataxis |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 lay | advmod |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 grass | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 grass | det |
| 38 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fell | cc |
| 40 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lay | conj |
| 41 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fell | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | the little tailor not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | tailor's nose | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wander | past · perfect · passive | the little tailor | time | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | past | tailor | a long time not said here | to the courtyard of a royal palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 5 | feel | gerund | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | lie down | past | tailor | the grass | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | |||
| 7 | fall | past | tailor not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP 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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