The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 99

The little tailor began his game once more, and flung the largest stone he could find in his wallet with all his force, and hit the first giant on the chest.

Who acts: little tailor, tailor · What happens: begin, fling, find, hit · To what, where: game, largest stone, wallet, first giant

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, 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	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 game	nmod:poss
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 began	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flung	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flung	cc
11	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stone	det
13	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 stone	amod
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flung	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stone	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 wallet	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wallet	nmod:poss
20	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 force	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 force	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 force	nmod:poss
24	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wallet	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hit	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hit	cc
27	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flung	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giant	det
29	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 giant	amod
30	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hit	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 chest	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chest	det
33	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hit	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the little tailor	tailor's game			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
2	fling	past		the largest stone			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	find	could	tailor	the largest stone not said here	tailor's wallet with tailor's force		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
4	hit	past		the first giant		on the chest	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent giant=Instrument on chest=Patient

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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