Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 33
"Well done," said the Tailor; "but your pebble will fall down again to the ground.
Who acts: Tailor, pebble · What happens: do, say, fall down · 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, pebble), 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 | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 done | advmod |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Tailor | det |
| 8 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fall | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fall | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 fall | cc |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pebble | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fall | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fall | aux |
| 15 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 fall | compound:prt |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 fall | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fall | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | participle | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Tailor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fall down in a quote | future | your pebble | again | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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