Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 124

The Tailor, however, only pretended to be asleep, and began to call out in a loud voice, "Boy, make me a coat, and then stitch up these trowsers, or I will lay the yard-measure about your shoulders.

Who acts: I · What happens: pretend, be, begin, call out, make, stitch up · To what, where: Tailor, loud voice, coat, me, trowsers, yard measure · 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tailor	det
2	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pretended	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tailor	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 pretended	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 pretended	advmod
7	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 asleep	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 asleep	cop
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pretended	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pretended	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 call	mark
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 call	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 voice	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 voice	det
19	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 voice	amod
20	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 call	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Boy	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Boy	punct
23	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 voice	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 call	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 coat	det
28	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stitch	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stitch	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 stitch	advmod
32	stitch	stitch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 pretended	parataxis
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 stitch	compound:prt
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 trowsers	det
35	trowsers	trowser	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 stitch	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lay	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 lay	cc
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 lay	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 lay	aux
40	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 stitch	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 measure	det
42	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 measure	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 yard	punct
44	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	obj
45	about	about	ADP	_	47 shoulders	case
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 shoulders	nmod:poss
47	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 measure	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	participle · passive		the Tailor				however property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						asleep property	tree rules
3	begin	past							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	call out speech: assert	to-infinitive				a loud voice			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make in a quote	infinitive		a coat	me				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary coat=Product
6	stitch up in a quote	infinitive		this trowsers			then		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trowser=Product
7	lay in a quote	future	I	the yard measure				about your shoulders	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent measure=Theme about shoulder=Destination

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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