The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 8

The three tailors arrived at Court, where they had themselves duly presented to the Princess, and begged she would propound her riddles, ‘for,’ said they, ‘here were the right men at last, with wits so sharp and so fine you might almost thread a needle with them.’

Who acts: three tailors, tailors, world, you · What happens: arrive, have, present, beg, propound, say · To what, where: Court, tailors, Princess, riddles, right men, last · 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 (three tailors, tailors, world, you), 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	3 tailors	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tailors	nummod
3	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Court	case
6	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 had	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 had	obj
12	duly	duly	ADV	_	13 presented	advmod
13	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Princess	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Princess	det
16	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 presented	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 begged	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 begged	cc
19	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 propound	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 propound	aux
22	propound	propound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 begged	ccomp
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 riddles	nmod:poss
24	riddles	riddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 propound	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
26	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	27 for	cc
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 said	mark
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 for	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 for	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	conj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 men	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 they	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 here	punct
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 men	advmod
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 men	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 men	det
37	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 men	amod
38	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 said	ccomp
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 last	case
40	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 men	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wits	punct
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 wits	case
43	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 said	parataxis
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 sharp	advmod
45	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 wits	amod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 fine	cc
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 fine	advmod
48	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sharp	conj
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 thread	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 thread	aux
51	almost	almost	ADV	_	52 thread	advmod
52	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fine	parataxis
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 needle	det
54	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sharp	nsubj
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 needle	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 sharp	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	43 wits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the three tailors			Court		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	tailors = tailor	tailors = tailor				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	present	past	tailors = tailor not said here		the Princess		duly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to princess=Recipient
4	beg speech: request	past	the three tailors not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	propound	would	world	world's riddles				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	the three tailors not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	tailors = tailor	the right men		last; here		tree rules
8	thread	might	you				almost property	tree rules
9	riddle		world					nom riddle «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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