The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 42

Then he fetched a pair of stocks, and the bear laid his paws on them, and the tailor screwed them up tight.

Who acts: fancy, bear, tailor · What happens: fetch, lay, screw up · To what, where: pair, paws

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 (fancy, bear, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fetched	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fetched	nsubj
3	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pair	det
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 stocks	case
7	stocks	stock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pair	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 laid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 laid	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	nsubj
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 paws	nmod:poss
14	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 laid	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laid	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 screwed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 screwed	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tailor	det
20	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 screwed	nsubj
21	screwed	screw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 screwed	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 screwed	compound:prt
24	tight	tight	ADV	_	21 screwed	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	fancy	a pair of stocks	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
2	lay	past	the bear	bear's paws		on paws = paw	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on they=Destination
3	screw up	past	the tailor	paws = paw		tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 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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