The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 89

When he came to the outskirts of the wood he said to his followers: “You wait here, I’ll manage the giants by myself”; and he went on into the wood, casting his sharp little eyes right and left about him.

Who acts: tailor, followers · What happens: come, say, wait, manage, go on, cast · To what, where: outskirts, followers, giants, wood, sharp little eyes · 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 (tailor, followers), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 outskirts	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 outskirts	det
6	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 outskirts	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 followers	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 followers	nmod:poss
14	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 wait	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 wait	punct
17	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 wait	nsubj
18	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 wait	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 manage	nsubj
22	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 manage	aux
23	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wait	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 giants	det
25	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 manage	obj
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 myself	case
27	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 manage	obl
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 manage	punct
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
33	on	on	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 casting	punct
38	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 went	advcl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyes	nmod:poss
40	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 eyes	amod
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 eyes	amod
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 casting	obj
43	right	right	ADV	_	38 casting	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 left	cc
45	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 went	conj
46	about	about	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 left	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	tailor			the outskirts of the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to outskirt=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	tailor		tailor's followers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to follower=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wait in a quote	present	tailor's followers = follower			here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	manage in a quote	future	tailor	the giants			by tailor	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent giant=Theme by myself=Eventuality
5	go on	past	tailor			the wood		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cast	gerund	tailor not said here	tailor's sharp little eyes			right property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product
7	leave	past	tailor not said here				about tailor	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=Location

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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