The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 91
The little tailor lost no time in filling his wallet with stones, and then climbed up the tree under which they lay.
Who acts: little tailor, boughs · What happens: lose, fill, climb up, lay · To what, where: wallet, tree
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, boughs), 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 | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 filling | mark |
| 8 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lost | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wallet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filling | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stones | case |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 filling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 climbed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 climbed | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 climbed | advmod |
| 16 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 climbed | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climbed | obj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lay | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 climbed | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the little tailor | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fill | gerund | the little tailor not said here | tailor's wallet | with stones | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wallet=Patient with stone=Instrument | |||
| 3 | climb up | past | the tree | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | boughs = bough | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under which=Destination |
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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