The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 35

‘Mere child’s play,’ replied the tailor; ‘look here! you press the strings with the fingers of the left hand, and with the right, you draw the bow across them, so--then it goes as easily as possible, up and down, tra la la la la--’

Who acts: play, you, Mere child · What happens: reply, look, press, draw, go, play · To what, where: tailor, strings, bow

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 (play, you, Mere child), 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	_	5 play	punct
2	Mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 play	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 child	case
5	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 play	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 play	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tailor	det
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	parataxis
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 look	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 press	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 press	nsubj
17	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 look	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 strings	det
19	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 press	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 fingers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fingers	det
22	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 press	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 hand	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hand	det
25	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hand	amod
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fingers	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 draw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 draw	cc
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 right	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 right	det
31	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 draw	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 right	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 draw	nsubj
34	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 press	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bow	det
36	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 draw	obj
37	across	across	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 draw	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 goes	punct
40	so	so	ADV	_	44 goes	advmod
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	44 goes	punct
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 goes	advmod
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 goes	nsubj
44	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 look	parataxis
45	as	as	ADV	_	46 easily	advmod
46	easily	easily	ADV	_	44 goes	advmod
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 possible	mark
48	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 easily	advcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 up	punct
50	up	up	ADV	_	54 tra	nsubj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 down	cc
52	down	down	ADV	_	50 up	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 tra	punct
54	tra	tra	X	Foreign=Yes	44 goes	conj
55	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	54 tra	flat
56	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	54 tra	flat
57	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	54 tra	obj
58	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	57 la	flat:foreign
59	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Mere child's play	the tailor				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic
2	look	infinitive			here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	press	present	you	the strings			with the fingers of the left hand	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
4	draw	present	you	the bow			with the right; across tailors = tailor	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme
5	go	present	play			then	easily property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	play		Mere child					nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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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