--- title: At last the little tailor, losing all patience, reached out of his c… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last the little tailor, losing all patience, reached out of his chimney corner for a duster, and exclaiming: “Wait, and I’ll give it to you,” he beat them mercilessly with it. Who acts: last little tailor, I, tailor. 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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 (last little tailor, I, tailor), 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:pg503:42:14 # text = At last the little tailor, losing all patience, reached out of his chimney corner for a duster, and exclaiming: “Wait, and I’ll give it to you,” he beat them mercilessly with it. 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 patience patience NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 out out ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 duster duster NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 exclaiming exclaim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 beat beat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 mercilessly mercilessly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | gerund | the last little tailor *not said here* | all patience | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality | | 2 | **reach out** | past | | tailor's chimney corner for a duster | | | | at the last little tailor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent corner=Theme at tailor=Asset | | 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | future | I | patience | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient | | 6 | **beat** | past | tailor | flies *= fly* | | | | with patience; mercilessly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with it=Instrument | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/15/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/)