--- title: With these words he led the tailor to a huge oak tree which had been… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: With these words he led the tailor to a huge oak tree which had been felled to the ground, and said: “If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the wood.” Who acts: tailor, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/43/) [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/) / 43 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 43 With these words he led the tailor to a huge oak tree which had been felled to the ground, and said: “If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the wood.” **Who acts:** tailor, you · **What happens:** lead, fell, say, be, help, carry · **To what, where:** tailor, huge oak tree, tree, wood · **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 (tailor, you), 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:pg503:42:43 # text = With these words he led the tailor to a huge oak tree which had been felled to the ground, and said: “If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the wood.” 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 felled fell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 If if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ _ 29 enough enough ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 31 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 out out ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lead** | past | tailor | the tailor | | a huge oak tree | | with this words | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tailor=Theme to tree=Destination | | 2 | **fell** | past · perfect · passive | | a huge oak tree | | | | to the ground | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | tailor *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | enough, strong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | | tailor | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | tailor *not said here* | the tree | | the wood | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme out wood=Initial\_Location | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/44/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/)