The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 92

When he got to about the middle of it he slipped along a branch till he sat just above the sleepers, when he threw down one stone after the other on the nearest giant.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: get, slip, sit, throw down · To what, where: sleepers, one stone

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), 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 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slipped	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 middle	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 middle	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 middle	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slipped	nsubj
11	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	along	along	ADP	_	14 branch	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 branch	det
14	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slipped	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 sat	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sat	nsubj
17	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slipped	advcl
18	just	just	ADV	_	21 sleepers	advmod
19	above	above	ADP	_	21 sleepers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sleepers	det
21	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sat	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 threw	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	nsubj
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slipped	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 threw	compound:prt
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 stone	nummod
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	obj
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 other	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 threw	obl
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 giant	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 giant	det
34	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 giant	amod
35	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	tailor			to the middle of middle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to middle=Result
2	slip	past	tailor			along a branch	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	sit	past	tailor	the sleepers			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleeper=Theme
4	throw down	past	tailor	one stone	after the other	on the nearest giant	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on giant=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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