Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 122
I will soon put an end to this affair," said the valiant little Tailor.
Who acts: I, King · What happens: put, say · To what, where: end, valiant little Tailor · 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 (I, King), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 affair | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 affair | det |
| 9 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tailor | det |
| 14 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Tailor | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Tailor | amod |
| 16 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | I | a end | to this affair; soon property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the King = king not said here | the valiant little Tailor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic |
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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