--- title: ‘Gently, gently,’ said the tailor, ‘I’ll soon teach you to be quiet,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Gently, gently,’ said the tailor, ‘I’ll soon teach you to be quiet,’ and he coolly drew a handful of walnuts from his pocket and began cracking and eating them as though he had not a care or anxiety in the world. Who acts: I, coolly, bear. 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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 (I, coolly, bear), 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:pg7277:51:24 # text = ‘Gently, gently,’ said the tailor, ‘I’ll soon teach you to be quiet,’ and he coolly drew a handful of walnuts from his pocket and began cracking and eating them as though he had not a care or anxiety in the world. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Gently gently ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 gently gently ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ll 'll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 14 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 15 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 coolly coolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ _ 25 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 handful handful NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 walnuts walnut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 cracking crack VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 conj _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 40 though though SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 anxiety anxiety NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the tailor | | | | gently *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **'ll** | present | I | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **draw** | past | coolly | a handful of walnuts | | bear's pocket | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **begin** | past | coolly *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **crack** | gerund | coolly *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **eat** | gerund | coolly *not said here* | tailors *= tailor* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 9 | **not** **care** | past | bear | | | | | | tree rules | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/25/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Clever Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/)