The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 66

While he lay there the people came, and looking him all over read on his girdle: “Seven at a blow.”

Who acts: tailor, people · What happens: lie, come, look, read · To what, where: Seven, tailor, girdle

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, people), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 lay	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 looking	cc
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lay	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looking	obj
12	all	all	ADV	_	14 read	advmod
13	over	over	ADV	_	14 read	advmod
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 looking	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 girdle	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 girdle	nmod:poss
17	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 read	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Seven	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Seven	punct
20	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lay	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 blow	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 blow	det
23	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Seven	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	tailor	Seven at a blow	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the people				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	tailor not said here	tailor			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute
4	read	infinitive	tailor not said here		tailor's girdle	all, over property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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