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title: So the tailor gave him some more pebbles, and the bear bit and gnawe… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the tailor gave him some more pebbles, and the bear bit and gnawed away as hard as he could, but I need hardly say that he did not succeed in cracking one of them. Who acts: tailor, I, bear. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with its dependency tre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 32

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So the tailor gave him some more pebbles, and the bear bit and gnawed away as hard as he could, but I need hardly say that he did not succeed in cracking one of them.

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**Who acts:** tailor, I, bear · **What happens:** give, gnaw, need, say, not succeed, crack · **To what, where:** more pebbles, bear, one · **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 (tailor, I, bear), 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:pg7277:51:32
# text = So the tailor gave him some more pebbles, and the bear bit and gnawed away as hard as he could, but I need hardly say that he did not succeed in cracking one of them.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	xcomp	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
33	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	advcl	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the tailor | some more pebbles | bear |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pebble=Theme |
| 2 | **gnaw** | participle | the tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **need** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **succeed** | past · do-support | bear |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **crack** | gerund | bear *not said here* | one of tailors |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |

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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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