Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 103
"I fear a unicorn less than I did two Giants!
Who acts: Tailor · What happens: fear, do · To what, where: unicorn, two Giants
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little 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), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fear | nsubj |
| 3 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 unicorn | det |
| 5 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fear | obj |
| 6 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 fear | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 did | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 less | advcl |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Giants | nummod |
| 11 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 did | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | present | the Tailor = tailor | a unicorn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | the Tailor = tailor | two Giants | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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