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title: As he was sitting thus a peasant woman came down the street, calling… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he was sitting thus a peasant woman came down the street, calling out: “Good jam to sell, good jam to sell.” Who acts: tailor, peasant woman. 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 2

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As he was sitting thus a peasant woman came down the street, calling out: “Good jam to sell, good jam to sell.”

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**Who acts:** tailor, peasant woman · **What happens:** sit, come down, call out, sell · **To what, where:** street · **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 (tailor, peasant woman), 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:pg503:42:2
# text = As he was sitting thus a peasant woman came down the street, calling out: “Good jam to sell, good jam to sell.”
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | tailor |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come down** | past | a peasant woman | the street |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location street=Theme |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund | a peasant woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sell** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a peasant woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sell** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a peasant woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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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