Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 26

"Perhaps so," replied the Tailor; "but here may be seen what sort of a man I am;" and, unbuttoning his coat, he showed the Giant his belt.

Who acts: Tailor · What happens: reply, see, unbutton, show, sort · To what, where: sort, coat, Giant belt, man · 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 (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 replied	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tailor	det
8	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 seen	cc
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 seen	advmod
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 seen	aux:pass
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 replied	advcl
16	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	17 sort	det
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 man	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sort	nmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 am	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 man	acl:relcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 showed	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unbuttoning	punct
27	unbuttoning	unbutton	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 showed	ccomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 coat	nmod:poss
29	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 unbuttoning	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unbuttoning	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 showed	nsubj
32	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 belt	det
34	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 belt	amod
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 belt	nmod:poss
36	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 showed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Tailor			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	may · passive	the Tailor not said here	what sort of a man	here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: sort=Stimulus
3	unbutton	gerund		Tailor's coat		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
4	show	past	Tailor	Tailor's Giant belt		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent belt=Recipient clause=Topic
5	sort in a quote			a man		nom sort «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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