--- title: ‘Mere child’s play,’ replied the tailor; ‘look here! you press the s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Mere child’s play,’ replied the tailor; ‘look here! you press the strings with the fingers of the left hand, and with the right, you draw the bow across them, so--then it goes as easily as possible, up and down, tra la la la la--’ Who acts: play, you, Mere child. 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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 (play, you, Mere child), 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:pg7277:51:35 # text = ‘Mere child’s play,’ replied the tailor; ‘look here! you press the strings with the fingers of the left hand, and with the right, you draw the bow across them, so--then it goes as easily as possible, up and down, tra la la la la--’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 press press VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 strings string NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 across across ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 45 as as ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 easily easily ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 47 as as SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 48 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 up up ADV RB _ 54 nsubj _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 down down ADV RB _ 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 54 tra tra X FW Foreign=Yes 44 conj _ _ 55 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 54 flat _ _ 56 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 54 flat _ _ 57 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 54 obj _ _ 58 la la X FW Foreign=Yes 57 flat:foreign _ SpaceAfter=No 59 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Mere child's play | the tailor | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic | | 2 | **look** | infinitive | | | | here | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **press** | present | you | the strings | | | | with the fingers of the left hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme | | 4 | **draw** | present | you | the bow | | | | with the right; across tailors *= tailor* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | | 5 | **go** | present | play | | | | then | easily *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **play** | | Mere child | | | | | | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/36/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Clever Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/)