--- title: “Is that all?” said the little tailor; “that’s child’s play to me,”… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Is that all?” said the little tailor; “that’s child’s play to me,” so he dived into his wallet, brought out the cheese, and pressed it till the whey ran out. Who acts: little tailor, that, play, wallet. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/) / 33 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 33 “Is that all?” said the little tailor; “that’s child’s play to me,” so he dived into his wallet, brought out the cheese, and pressed it till the whey ran out. **Who acts:** little tailor, that, play, wallet, whey · **What happens:** be, dive, bring out, press, run out · **To what, where:** play, wallet, cheese · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, that, play, wallet), 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:pg503:42:33 # text = “Is that all?” said the little tailor; “that’s child’s play to me,” so he dived into his wallet, brought out the cheese, and pressed it till the whey ran out. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 dived dive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 wallet wallet NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 pressed press VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 till till SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 whey whey NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 41 out out ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | the little tailor | | | | | say *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | child's play | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dive** | past | child's play | | | tailor's wallet | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wallet=Location | | 4 | **bring out** | participle | tailor's wallet *not said here* | the cheese | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient | | 5 | **press** | past | | cheese | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **run out** | past | the whey | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/34/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/)