Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 30

"If it be nothing harder than that," said the Tailor, "that's child's play."

Who acts: water, Tailor, that · What happens: be, say · To what, where: play · 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 (water, Tailor, that), 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 harder	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 harder	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 harder	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 harder	cop
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 harder	nsubj
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 harder	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tailor	det
13	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 play	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 play	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 play	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 play	cop
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 play	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 child	case
20	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tailor	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 harder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive	water		hard property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Tailor and child's play		than that	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	that	child's play		tree rules

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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