The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 71

The messenger remained standing by the sleeper, and waited till he stretched his limbs and opened his eyes, when he tendered his proposal.

Who acts: messenger · What happens: remain, stand, wait, stretch, open, tender · To what, where: limbs, eyes, proposal

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 (messenger), 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	2 messenger	det
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 remained	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 sleeper	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sleeper	det
7	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 standing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 waited	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 waited	cc
10	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	parataxis
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 stretched	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stretched	nsubj
13	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 waited	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 limbs	nmod:poss
15	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stretched	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 opened	cc
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stretched	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 opened	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tendered	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 tendered	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tendered	nsubj
23	tendered	tender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 waited	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 proposal	nmod:poss
25	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tendered	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the messenger			tree rules
2	stand	gerund	the messenger not said here		by the sleeper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sleeper=Location
3	wait	past				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch	past	messenger	messenger's limbs		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient
5	open	past	messenger not said here	messenger's eyes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
6	tender	past	messenger	messenger's proposal		tree rules
7	propose		messenger			nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=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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