Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 20

The sprightly tailor was taking the long stitches, when he saw it gradually rising and rising through the floor, until it lifted out a great leg, and stamping with it upon the pavement, said in a roaring voice: "Do you see this great leg of mine?"

Who acts: sprightly tailor, tailor, pair, taking, you · What happens: take, see, rise, lift out, stamp, say · To what, where: long stitches, floor, great leg, pavement, roaring voice · 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, tailor, pair, taking), 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 tailor	det
2	sprightly	sprightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taking	aux
5	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 said	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stitches	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stitches	amod
8	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taking	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taking	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rising	nsubj
14	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	15 rising	advmod
15	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 saw	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rising	cc
17	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 rising	conj
18	through	through	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rising	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lifted	punct
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 lifted	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lifted	nsubj
24	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 saw	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 lifted	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 leg	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 leg	amod
28	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lifted	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stamping	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 stamping	cc
31	stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 taking	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stamping	obl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 pavement	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pavement	det
36	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stamping	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 voice	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 voice	det
41	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 voice	compound
42	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 said	obl
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 see	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 see	punct
45	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 see	aux
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 see	nsubj
47	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	ccomp
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 leg	det
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 leg	amod
50	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 see	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 mine	case
52	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 leg	nmod
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	47 see	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	47 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	the sprightly tailor	the long stitches			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stitch=Theme
2	see	past	tailor				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	rise	gerund	pair			gradually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rise	gerund	pair not said here		the floor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through floor=Location
5	lift out	past	pair	a great leg			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
6	stamp	gerund	the sprightly tailor not said here		the pavement	with pair	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon pavement=Destination
7	say speech: ask	past	taking		a roaring voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	see in a quote	present · do-support	you	this great leg of mine			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus

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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