The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 74
But the other officers resented the success of the little tailor, and wished him a thousand miles away.
Who acts: other officers · What happens: resent, wish · To what, where: success, messenger
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 (other officers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 resented | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 officers | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 officers | amod |
| 4 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 resented | nsubj |
| 5 | resented | resent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 success | det |
| 7 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resented | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tailor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tailor | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tailor | amod |
| 11 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 success | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wished | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wished | cc |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 resented | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thousand | det |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 away | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 wished | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resent | past | the other officers | the success of the little tailor | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer success=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the other officers not said here | messenger | away property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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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