The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 82

He sent to the tailor and told him that, seeing what a great and warlike hero he was, he was about to make him an offer.

Who acts: King · What happens: send, tell, see, be, make · To what, where: tailor, that, King, offer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 tailor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tailor	det
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 told	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeing	punct
11	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 seeing	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hero	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hero	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 warlike	cc
16	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 great	conj
17	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 what	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 was	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hero	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 about	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 about	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 about	cop
23	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sent	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 about	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 offer	det
28	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	King		the tailor		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to tailor=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	King not said here	that	King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
3	see	gerund	King not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	is	past	King			about property	tree rules
5	make	to-infinitive	King not said here	a offer	King		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary offer=Product

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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