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title: ‘You’re a nice sort of fellow,’ said the tailor; ‘the idea of having… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You’re a nice sort of fellow,’ said the tailor; ‘the idea of having those great jaws and not being able even to crack a walnut!’ Who acts: You, idea. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 29

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‘You’re a nice sort of fellow,’ said the tailor; ‘the idea of having those great jaws and not being able even to crack a walnut!’

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**Who acts:** You, idea · **What happens:** be, say, have, not be, crack, sort · **To what, where:** nice sort, tailor, great jaws, walnut, fellow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, idea), 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:pg7277:51:29
# text = ‘You’re a nice sort of fellow,’ said the tailor; ‘the idea of having those great jaws and not being able even to crack a walnut!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’re	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | You | a nice sort of fellow |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the tailor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | that great jaws |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | gerund | the idea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **crack** | to-infinitive | the idea *not said here* | a walnut |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walnut=Theme |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | fellow |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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 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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