The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 88
The little tailor set out, and the hundred horsemen followed him.
Who acts: little tailor · What happens: set out, follow · To what, where: little tailor, man
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 (little tailor), 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 | 3 tailor | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tailor | amod |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tailor | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 followed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horsemen | det |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horsemen | nummod |
| 10 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 followed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the little tailor not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | the little tailor | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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