Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 17

And again the sprightly tailor replied: "I see that, but I'll sew this!" and stitched away at his trews.

Who acts: sprightly tailor · What happens: reply, see, sew, stitch away · To what, where: that, this, trews · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sprightly Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sprightly 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 replied	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	6 replied	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tailor	det
4	sprightly	sprightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tailor	amod
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	ccomp
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 see	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sew	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 sew	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sew	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sew	aux
16	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	conj
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 sew	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 sew	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 sew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stitched	cc
21	stitched	stitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 stitched	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 trews	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 trews	nmod:poss
25	trews	trew	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stitched	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: express	past	the sprightly tailor			again		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	present	the sprightly tailor = tailor	that				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	sew in a quote	future	the sprightly tailor = tailor	this				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Product
4	stitch away	past	the sprightly tailor not said here		tailor's trews		away property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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