Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 25

The Giant looked with scorn at the little Tailor, and said, "You rascal! you wretched creature!"

Who acts: Giant, you · What happens: look, say · 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 (Giant, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 scorn	case
5	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 Tailor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Tailor	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Tailor	amod
9	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rascal	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 rascal	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 rascal	nsubj
16	rascal	rascal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 rascal	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
19	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creature	amod
20	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 creature	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 creature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Giant					with scorn; at the little Tailor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tailor=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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