--- title: The Tailor, however, only pretended to be asleep, and began to call… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: The Tailor, however, only pretended to be asleep, and began to call out in a loud voice, "Boy, make me a coat, and then stitch up these trowsers, or I will lay the yard-measure about your shoulders. Who acts: I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:13:124 # text = The Tailor, however, only pretended to be asleep, and began to call out in a loud voice, "Boy, make me a coat, and then stitch up these trowsers, or I will lay the yard-measure about your shoulders. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 pretended pretend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 stitch stitch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 up up ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 trowsers trowser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 45 about about ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | participle · passive | | the Tailor | | | | however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **begin** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | a loud voice | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a coat | me | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary coat=Product | | 6 | **stitch up** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this trowsers | | | then | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trowser=Product | | 7 | **lay** *in a quote* | future | I | the yard measure | | | | about your shoulders | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent measure=Theme about shoulder=Destination | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/125/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/)