Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 107

Steady! steady!" he exclaimed, "that is not done so easily"; and, waiting till the animal was close upon him, he sprang nimbly behind a tree.

Who acts: Tailor, waiting · What happens: exclaim, not do, wait, be, spring · To what, where: Steady, that, tree · 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, waiting), 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	Steady	steady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	obl:unmarked
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 steady	punct
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Steady	amod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Steady	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Steady	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 exclaimed	nsubj
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 done	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux:pass
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 done	advmod
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 exclaimed	parataxis
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 easily	advmod
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 done	advmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 done	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 close	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 waiting	punct
20	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 close	csubj
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 animal	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 animal	det
23	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 waiting	obl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 close	cop
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exclaimed	advcl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 close	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sprang	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sprang	nsubj
30	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 exclaimed	conj
31	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	30 sprang	advmod
32	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 tree	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tree	det
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sprang	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	Tailor	Steady				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do	present · passive		that			easily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	wait in a quote	gerund				till the animal		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	waiting				upon Tailor; close property	tree rules
5	spring in a quote	past	Tailor		a tree		nimbly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind tree=Trajectory

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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