Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 27

The Giant read, "SEVEN AT ONE BLOW"; and supposing they were men whom the Tailor had killed, he felt some respect for him.

Who acts: Giant, Tailor, bushes · What happens: read, suppose, be, kill, feel · To what, where: SEVEN, ONE BLOW, men, respect · 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, Tailor, bushes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11027:434): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 read	det
2	Giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 SEVEN	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 SEVEN	punct
6	SEVEN	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 read	obj
7	AT	at	ADP	_	9 BLOW	case
8	ONE	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 BLOW	nummod
9	BLOW	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 SEVEN	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 SEVEN	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
13	supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 felt	advcl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 men	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 men	cop
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 supposing	ccomp
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 killed	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Tailor	det
19	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 killed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 killed	aux
21	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 men	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 supposing	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 respect	det
26	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 felt	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 felt	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	past	Giant	SEVEN	ONE BLOW		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent seven=Theme at blow=Value
2	suppose	gerund	Tailor not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	bushes = bush	men			tree rules
4	kill	past · perfect	the Tailor	men			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
5	feel	past	Tailor	some respect		for Giant	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent respect=Location for he=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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