The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 85

“That’s the very thing for a man like me,” thought the little tailor; “one doesn’t get the offer of a beautiful princess and half a kingdom every day.”

Who acts: That, thing, one · What happens: be, think, not get, offer · To what, where: thing, little tailor, offer, beautiful princess · 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 (That, thing, one), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 thing	advmod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 man	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tailor	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tailor	amod
17	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 get	nsubj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 get	advmod
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 offer	det
25	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 princess	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 princess	det
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 princess	amod
29	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 offer	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 half	cc
31	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	33 kingdom	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 kingdom	det
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	parataxis
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 day	det
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl:unmarked
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the thing		for a man like me	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the thing	the little tailor			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tailor=Attribute clause=Theme
3	not get in a quote	present · do-support	one	the offer of a beautiful princess	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer offer=Stimulus
4	offer in a quote			a beautiful princess			nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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