Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sprightly Tailor, sentence 7

Then he chose him a nice gravestone for a seat and he lighted his candle, and put on his thimble, and set to work at the trews; plying his needle nimbly, and thinking about the hire that the laird would have to give him.

Who acts: tailor, laird · What happens: choose, light, put, set, work, ply · To what, where: nice gravestone, laird, candle, thimble, needle, tailor

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, laird), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 chose	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chose	nsubj
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chose	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gravestone	det
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gravestone	amod
7	gravestone	gravestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 seat	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 seat	det
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gravestone	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lighted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lighted	nsubj
13	lighted	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 candle	nmod:poss
15	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lighted	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
18	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chose	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 thimble	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 thimble	nmod:poss
21	thimble	thimble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 set	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 set	cc
24	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 put	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 work	mark
26	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 set	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 trews	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trews	det
29	trews	trew	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 work	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 plying	punct
31	plying	ply	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 chose	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 needle	nmod:poss
33	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 plying	obj
34	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	31 plying	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 thinking	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 thinking	cc
37	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 plying	conj
38	about	about	ADP	_	40 hire	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hire	det
40	hire	hire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thinking	obl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 have	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 laird	det
43	laird	laird	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 have	aux
45	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 thinking	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 give	mark
47	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 have	xcomp
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 give	iobj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	tailor	a nice gravestone	laird		then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary gravestone=Theme
2	light	past	tailor	tailor's candle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product
3	put	participle	tailor not said here			tailor's thimble			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on thimble=Destination
4	set	infinitive	tailor not said here						tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	tailor not said here					at the trews	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at trew=Theme
6	ply	gerund	tailor not said here	tailor's needle				nimbly property	vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent needle=Recipient
7	think speech: other	gerund	tailor not said here					about the hire	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about hire=Topic
8	have	would	the laird						tree rules
9	give	to-infinitive	the laird not said here		tailor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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