Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 125
Seven have I slain with one blow, two Giants have I killed, a unicorn have I led captive, and a wild boar have I caught, and shall I be afraid of those who stand outside my room?"
Who acts: Seven, I · What happens: slay, kill, lead, catch, be, stand · To what, where: two Giants, unicorn, wild boar, room
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 (Seven, 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 | Seven | seven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slain | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slain | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 slain | nsubj |
| 4 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 blow | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 blow | nummod |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slain | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Giants | nummod |
| 10 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 blow | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 unicorn | det |
| 16 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 led | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slain | conj |
| 20 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 caught | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 caught | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 boar | det |
| 24 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 boar | amod |
| 25 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 caught | aux |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 caught | nsubj |
| 28 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 slain | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 afraid | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 afraid | cc |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 afraid | aux |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 afraid | nsubj |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 afraid | cop |
| 34 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 caught | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 those | case |
| 36 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 afraid | obl |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 stand | nsubj |
| 38 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 those | acl:relcl |
| 39 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 41 room | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 room | nmod:poss |
| 41 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stand | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 caught | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | present · perfect | Seven | with one blow | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blow=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | kill | present · perfect · passive | two Giants | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | present · perfect · passive | a unicorn | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | catch | present · perfect · passive | a wild boar | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | shall | I | of those; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | present | my room | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside room=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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