The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 26

The tailor dived into his pocket and gave him a handful, but they were pebbles, not nuts.

Who acts: tailor, tailors · What happens: dive, give, be · To what, where: pocket, handful, bear, pebbles

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 (tailor, tailors), 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	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dived	nsubj
3	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pocket	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pocket	nmod:poss
6	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dived	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dived	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 handful	det
11	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pebbles	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 pebbles	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pebbles	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pebbles	cop
16	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nuts	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 nuts	advmod
19	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pebbles	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	dive	past	the tailor			bear's pocket	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Location
2	give	past	the tailor not said here	a handful	bear		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient handful=Theme
3	is a	past	tailors = tailor	pebbles and nuts			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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