--- title: He examined them all, lifted them up and smelled them, and said at l… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He examined them all, lifted them up and smelled them, and said at last: “This jam seems good, weigh me four ounces of it, my good woman; and even if it’s a quarter of a pound I won’t stick at it.” Who acts: tailor, jam, row, I. 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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 (tailor, jam, row, I), 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:pg503:42:5 # text = He examined them all, lifted them up and smelled them, and said at last: “This jam seems good, weigh me four ounces of it, my good woman; and even if it’s a quarter of a pound I won’t stick at it.” 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 examined examine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 smelled smell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 jam jam NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 ounces ounce NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 even even ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 37 if if SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 pound pound NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 45 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 47 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 stick stick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ” " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **examine** | past | tailor | pots *= pot* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lift up** | past | tailor *not said here* | pots *= pot* | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **smell** | past | tailor *not said here* | pots *= pot* | | | | | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | last | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | this jam | | | | | good *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **weigh** *in a quote* | infinitive | this jam *not said here* | me | | | | my good woman *obl* | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | row | a quarter | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **stick** *in a quote* | future | I | | | row | | of a pound | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent at it=Destination | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/6/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/42/)