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title: “That’s the very thing for a man like me,” thought the little tailor… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “That’s the very thing for a man like me,” thought the little tailor; “one doesn’t get the offer of a beautiful princess and half a kingdom every day.” Who acts: That, thing, one. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 85

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“That’s the very thing for a man like me,” thought the little tailor; “one doesn’t get the offer of a beautiful princess and half a kingdom every day.”

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**Who acts:** That, thing, one · **What happens:** be, think, not get, offer · **To what, where:** thing, little tailor, offer, beautiful princess · **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 (That, thing, one), 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:pg503:42:85
# text = “That’s the very thing for a man like me,” thought the little tailor; “one doesn’t get the offer of a beautiful princess and half a kingdom every day.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	33	det:predet	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the thing |  |  |  | for a man like me | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the thing | the little tailor |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent tailor=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · do-support | one | the offer of a beautiful princess |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer offer=Stimulus |
| 4 | **offer** *in a quote* |  |  | a beautiful princess |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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