Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 19

"I see those, but I'll sew this!" answered the tailor; and he stitched hard at his trews, for he knew that he had no time to lose.

Who acts: tailor · What happens: see, sew, answer, stitch, know, have · To what, where: those, 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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	ccomp
4	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sew	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sew	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sew	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sew	aux
9	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 sew	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tailor	det
15	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stitched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stitched	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stitched	nsubj
19	stitched	stitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	parataxis
20	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 stitched	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 trews	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 trews	nmod:poss
23	trews	trew	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stitched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 knew	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stitched	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knew	ccomp
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 lose	mark
34	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 time	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present	the tailor = tailor	those				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	sew in a quote	future	the tailor = tailor	this				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Product
3	answer speech: express	past	the tailor					tree rules
4	stitch	past	tailor		tailor's trews		hard property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	know	past	tailor					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	tailor			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	lose	to-infinitive	tailor not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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