Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 3

This cry sounded nice in the Tailor's ears, and, poking his diminutive head out of the window, he called, "Here, my good woman, just bring your jams in here!"

Who acts: cry · What happens: sound, poke, call, bring · To what, where: diminutive head, window, jams · 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 (cry), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 cry	det
2	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounded	nsubj
3	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sounded	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 ears	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tailor	det
7	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ears	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Tailor	case
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nice	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 called	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
15	diminutive	diminutive	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 head	compound
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poking	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 window	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 window	det
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 poking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 poking	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 called	nsubj
23	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sounded	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Here	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Here	punct
26	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 called	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 woman	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 woman	nmod:poss
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 woman	amod
30	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Here	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bring	punct
32	just	just	ADV	_	33 bring	advmod
33	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 sounded	parataxis
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 jams	nmod:poss
35	jams	jam	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bring	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 here	case
37	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 bring	obl
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 bring	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	this cry			nice property	tree rules
2	poke	gerund	cry not said here	Tailor's diminutive head	the window		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	call	past	cry		here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring in a quote	infinitive		your jams			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jam=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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