The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 47

As they were starting, the two bad-hearted other tailors, who were envious of the younger one’s happiness, went to the stable and unscrewed the bear.

Who acts: tailors, two hearted other tailors · What happens: start, be, go, unscrew · To what, where: stable, bear

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 (tailors, two hearted other 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 starting	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 starting	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 starting	aux
4	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 went	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 starting	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tailors	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 tailors	nummod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hearted	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bad	punct
10	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tailors	amod
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tailors	amod
12	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 went	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 envious	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 envious	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 envious	cop
16	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tailors	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	22 happiness	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 one	det
19	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 one	amod
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 happiness	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 one	case
22	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 envious	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tailors	punct
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 stable	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stable	det
27	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 unscrewed	cc
29	unscrewed	unscrew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bear	det
31	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 unscrewed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past · progressive	tailors = tailor				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	the two hearted other tailors			of the younger one's happiness; envious property	tree rules
3	go	past	the two hearted other tailors		the stable		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location
4	unscrew	past	the two hearted other tailors not said here	the bear			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=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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