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title: “Now heaven shall bless this jam for my use,” cried the little tailo… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now heaven shall bless this jam for my use,” cried the little tailor, “and it shall sustain and strengthen me.” Who acts: heaven, little tailor, my. 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 7

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“Now heaven shall bless this jam for my use,” cried the little tailor, “and it shall sustain and strengthen me.”

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**Who acts:** heaven, little tailor, my · **What happens:** bless, cry, sustain, strengthen, use · **To what, where:** jam, little tailor · **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 (heaven, little tailor, my), 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:pg503:42:7
# text = “Now heaven shall bless this jam for my use,” cried the little tailor, “and it shall sustain and strengthen me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	bless	bless	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sustain	sustain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** *in a quote* | shall | heaven | this jam |  |  |  | for my use | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent jam=Theme for use=Attribute |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the little tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sustain** *in a quote* | shall | heaven |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **strengthen** *in a quote* | infinitive | heaven *not said here* | the little tailor *= tailor* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **use** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: poss=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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