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title: The little tailor, who had only pretended to be asleep, began to cal… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little tailor, who had only pretended to be asleep, began to call out in a clear voice: “My lad, make that waistcoat and patch those trousers, or I’ll box your ears. Who acts: little tailor, lad, wife. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependen
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 133

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The little tailor, who had only pretended to be asleep, began to call out in a clear voice: “My lad, make that waistcoat and patch those trousers, or I’ll box your ears.

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**Who acts:** little tailor, lad, wife · **What happens:** pretend, be, begin, call out, make, box · **To what, where:** little tailor, clear voice, waistcoat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little tailor, lad, wife), 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:pg503:42:133
# text = The little tailor, who had only pretended to be asleep, began to call out in a clear voice: “My lad, make that waistcoat and patch those trousers, or I’ll box your ears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past · perfect · passive |  | the little tailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the little tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the little tailor *not said here* |  |  | a clear voice |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | My lad | that waistcoat and patch |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset waistcoat=Beneficiary trousers=Product |
| 6 | **box** *in a quote* | future | wife |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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