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title: The weary tailor required no rocking to rest, but slept sound till e… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The weary tailor required no rocking to rest, but slept sound till early morning, when he was roused from his slumbers by a tremendous noise. Who acts: weary tailor, tremendous noise, tailor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 16

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The weary tailor required no rocking to rest, but slept sound till early morning, when he was roused from his slumbers by a tremendous noise.

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**Who acts:** weary tailor, tremendous noise, tailor · **What happens:** require, rest, sleep, rouse, slumber · **To what, where:** rocking, sound, tailor, slumbers

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weary tailor, tremendous noise, tailor), 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:pg7277:45:16
# text = The weary tailor required no rocking to rest, but slept sound till early morning, when he was roused from his slumbers by a tremendous noise.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	rocking	rocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	slumbers	slumber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | past | the weary tailor | no rocking |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rocking=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the weary tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | the weary tailor *not said here* | sound |  |  | morning |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 4 | **rouse** | past · passive | a tremendous noise | tailor |  | tailor's slumbers |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **slumber** |  | tailor |  |  |  |  |  | nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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