Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 16

In great haste he cut himself out a band, hemmed it, and then put on it in large letters, "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW!" "

Who acts: town · What happens: cut out, hem, put · To what, where: town, great haste, band

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 (town), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 haste	case
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 haste	amod
3	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 cut	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 band	det
9	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hemmed	punct
11	hemmed	hem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hemmed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 put	advmod
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 letters	case
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 letters	amod
21	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 SEVEN	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 SEVEN	punct
24	SEVEN	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 letters	appos
25	AT	at	ADP	_	27 BLOW	case
26	ONE	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 BLOW	nummod
27	BLOW	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 SEVEN	nmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut out	past	town	town	great haste			tree rules
2	hem	past	town not said here	band				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	put	infinitive	town not said here		band	then	in large letters	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on it=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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