The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 95

They both lay down to sleep again, and the tailor threw down a stone on the second giant, who sprang up and cried: “What’s that for?

Who acts: horsemen, tailor, second giant · What happens: lay down, sleep, throw down, spring up, cry · To what, where: 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 (horsemen, tailor, second giant), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	advcl
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 sleep	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tailor	det
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 threw	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stone	det
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 giant	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 giant	det
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 giant	amod
19	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sprang	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sprang	nsubj
22	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 giant	acl:relcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 sprang	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cried	cc
25	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sprang	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 ’s	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 ’s	punct
28	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 ’s	nsubj
29	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 ’s	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	29 ’s	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	present	horsemen = horseman			down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sleep	to-infinitive	horsemen = horseman not said here		again		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw down	past	the tailor	a stone		on the second giant	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on giant=Destination
4	spring up	past	the second giant				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	the second giant not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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