Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 21

His road led him up a hill, and when he arrived at the highest point of it he found a great Giant sitting there, who was gazing about him very composedly.

Who acts: road, world · What happens: lead up, arrive, find, sit, gaze, point · To what, where: world, highest point, road

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 (road, world), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 road	nmod:poss
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 led	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 found	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 arrived	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 arrived	nsubj
12	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 point	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 point	det
15	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 point	amod
16	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrived	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 point	nmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Giant	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Giant	amod
23	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 found	xcomp
24	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 Giant	advcl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sitting	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gazing	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 gazing	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gazing	aux
29	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sitting	conj
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gazing	obl
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 composedly	advmod
33	composedly	composedly	ADV	_	29 gazing	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead up	past	world's road	world			tree rules
2	arrive	past	world		the highest point of road		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	world			giant property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	sit	gerund	world not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gaze	past · progressive				about world; composedly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
6	point			road			nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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