Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 28

Still he meant to try him first; so taking up a pebble, he squeezed it so hard that water dropped out of it. "

Who acts: Tailor, water · What happens: mean, try, take up, squeeze, drop out · To what, where: Tailor, pebble

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, water), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	3 meant	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meant	nsubj
3	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 try	mark
5	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meant	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 try	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 try	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 taking	advmod
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 meant	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 taking	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pebble	det
13	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 squeezed	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 squeezed	nsubj
16	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 meant	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 squeezed	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 hard	advmod
19	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 squeezed	advmod
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	nsubj
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 squeezed	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 it	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dropped	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	Tailor		still		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tailor not said here	Tailor		first property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	take up	gerund	Tailor not said here	a pebble			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme
4	squeeze	past	Tailor	pebble		hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	drop out	past	that water	pebble			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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