--- title: But the little tailor was not to be daunted, and said he had set his… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But the little tailor was not to be daunted, and said he had set his mind on it and meant to shift for himself, so off he started as though the whole world belonged to him. Who acts: thought, whole world. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Clever Tailor, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Story of a Clever Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/) / 7 # The Green Fairy Book, The Story of a Clever Tailor, sentence 7 But the little tailor was not to be daunted, and said he had set his mind on it and meant to shift for himself, so off he started as though the whole world belonged to him. **Who acts:** thought, whole world · **What happens:** not be, say, set, mean, shift, start · **To what, where:** little tailor, thought, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (thought, whole world), 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:pg7277:51:7 # text = But the little tailor was not to be daunted, and said he had set his mind on it and meant to shift for himself, so off he started as though the whole world belonged to him. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 daunted daunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 shift shift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 off off ADP IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 31 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 though though SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | past · passive | | the little tailor | | | | daunt *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **set** | past · perfect · passive | | thought | | mind | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mind=Destination | | 4 | **mean** | past | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **shift** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | for thought | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **start** | past | thought | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **belong** | past | the whole world | | thought | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **mind** | | thought | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/8/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Clever Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/51/)