Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 18
The little Tailor bound the belt around his body, and made ready to travel forth into the wide world, feeling the workshop too small for his great deeds.
Who acts: little Tailor · What happens: bind, make, travel, feel · To what, where: belt, body, wide world, workshop
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 (little 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tailor | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tailor | amod |
| 3 | Tailor | Tailor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | nsubj |
| 4 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 belt | det |
| 6 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | obj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 9 body | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 body | nmod:poss |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | parataxis |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 travel | mark |
| 15 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ready | xcomp |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 travel | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 19 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 world | amod |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 travel | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feeling | punct |
| 22 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 made | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 workshop | det |
| 24 | workshop | workshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feeling | obj |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 small | advmod |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 feeling | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 deeds | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 deeds | amod |
| 30 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 small | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past | the little Tailor | the belt | Tailor's body | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | the wide world | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into world=Destination | ||||
| 4 | feel | gerund | the workshop | small property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workshop=Theme |
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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