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title: He placed the bread beside him, went on sewing, and out of the light… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He placed the bread beside him, went on sewing, and out of the lightness of his heart kept on making his stitches bigger and bigger. Who acts: tailor. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 10

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He placed the bread beside him, went on sewing, and out of the lightness of his heart kept on making his stitches bigger and bigger.

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**Who acts:** tailor · **What happens:** place, go, keep, make · **To what, where:** bread, lightness, sewing, heart, stitches

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little 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.

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**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:pg503:42:10
# text = He placed the bread beside him, went on sewing, and out of the lightness of his heart kept on making his stitches bigger and bigger.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sewing	sewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lightness	lightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	stitches	stitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | tailor | the bread |  | the lightness of tailor's heart |  | beside him *= he* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bread=Theme beside he=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | tailor *not said here* |  |  | sewing |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sewing=Location |
| 3 | **keep** | participle |  | tailor's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | tailor's stitches |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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