Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 116

If he had known that it was no warrior, but only a Tailor, who stood before him, it would have grieved him still more.

Who acts: hero, Tailor · What happens: know, be, stand, grieve · To what, where: Tailor, warrior, hero

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 (hero, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 known	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 known	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 known	aux
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 grieved	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 warrior	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 warrior	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 warrior	cop
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 warrior	det
9	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 known	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Tailor	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 Tailor	cc
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 Tailor	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Tailor	det
14	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 warrior	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Tailor	acl
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 known	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grieved	nsubj:pass
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 grieved	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 grieved	aux
24	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grieved	obj
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 grieved	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Tailor		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	is a	past	hero	no warrior		tree rules
3	stand	past	a Tailor		before Tailor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
4	grieve	would · perfect · passive		hero		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result

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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