The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 24

‘Gently, gently,’ said the tailor, ‘I’ll soon teach you to be quiet,’ and he coolly drew a handful of walnuts from his pocket and began cracking and eating them as though he had not a care or anxiety in the world.

Who acts: I, coolly, bear · What happens: say, 'll, teach, be, draw, begin · To what, where: tailor, you, handful, pocket, tailors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, coolly, bear), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Gently	gently	ADV	_	4 gently	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Gently	punct
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gently	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gently	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tailor	det
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ’ll	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 ’ll	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 ’ll	nsubj
13	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 teach	advcl
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 ’ll	advmod
15	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 teach	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 quiet	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 quiet	cop
19	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 teach	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 coolly	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 coolly	nsubj
24	coolly	coolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 drew	nsubj
25	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 handful	det
27	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drew	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 walnuts	case
29	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 handful	nmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 pocket	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 pocket	nmod:poss
32	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drew	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 began	cc
34	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drew	conj
35	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 began	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 eating	cc
37	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 cracking	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 eating	obj
39	as	as	ADV	_	45 care	advmod
40	though	though	SCONJ	_	45 care	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 care	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 care	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 care	advmod
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 care	det
45	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eating	obl
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 anxiety	cc
47	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 care	conj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 world	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 world	det
50	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 anxiety	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the tailor			gently property	tree rules
2	'll	present	I				soon property	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	present			you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	to-infinitive					quiet property	tree rules
5	draw	past	coolly	a handful of walnuts		bear's pocket		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
6	begin	past	coolly not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	crack	gerund	coolly not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	eat	gerund	coolly not said here	tailors = tailor				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
9	not care	past	bear					tree rules

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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