Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 105

So he carried with him a rope and an axe and went off to the forest, ordering those, who were told to accompany him, to wait on the outskirts.

Who acts: Tailor · What happens: carry, go off, order, tell, accompany, wait · To what, where: rope, those, Tailor, outskirts · Speech: someone speaks here

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	So	so	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rope	det
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 axe	cc
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 axe	det
10	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rope	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ordering	punct
18	ordering	order	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
19	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 ordering	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 told	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	aux:pass
23	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 those	acl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 accompany	mark
25	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 accompany	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wait	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 wait	mark
29	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 accompany	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 outskirts	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 outskirts	det
32	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wait	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	Tailor	a rope and a axe		with BLOW	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
2	go off	past	Tailor not said here			to the forest	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	order	gerund	Tailor not said here	those			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past · passive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
5	accompany not said to happen	to-infinitive		Tailor			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	wait	to-infinitive			the outskirts		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on outskirt=Location

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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