Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 31
And, diving into his pocket, he pulled out the cheese and squeezed it till the whey ran out of it, and said, "Now, I fancy that I have done better than you."
Who acts: Tailor, whey · What happens: dive, pull out, squeeze, run, say, fancy · To what, where: pocket, cheese · 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, whey), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pulled | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 diving | punct |
| 3 | diving | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 pulled | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 pocket | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 6 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 diving | obl | ||
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 diving | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pulled | nsubj |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pulled | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cheese | det |
| 12 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulled | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 squeezed | cc |
| 14 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 squeezed | obj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 ran | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 whey | det |
| 18 | whey | whey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 squeezed | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ran | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fancy | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 fancy | punct |
| 28 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 fancy | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fancy | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 fancy | nsubj |
| 31 | fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 done | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 done | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 done | aux |
| 35 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 fancy | advcl |
| 36 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 done | xcomp |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 better | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | gerund | Tailor not said here | Tailor's pocket | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pocket=Location | ||||
| 2 | pull out | past | Tailor | the cheese | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | squeeze | past | Tailor not said here | cheese | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | the whey | cheese | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out it=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Tailor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | fancy in a quote | present | Tailor | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | present · perfect | Tailor | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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