Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 22

But the little Tailor went boldly up, and said, "Good day, friend; truly you sit there and see the whole world stretched below you.

Who acts: little Tailor, you · What happens: go, say, sit, see, stretch · To what, where: whole world · 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 (little Tailor, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tailor	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Tailor	amod
4	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
13	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 friend	punct
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 day	vocative
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sit	punct
18	truly	truly	ADV	_	20 sit	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 sit	nsubj
20	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 sit	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sit	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 world	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 world	amod
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
27	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 world	acl
28	below	below	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 stretched	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the little Tailor				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the little Tailor not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sit in a quote	present	you		there	truly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the whole world			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
5	stretch in a quote	participle		the whole world not said here		below you	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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