Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 37

"You can throw well," replied the giant; "now truly we will see if you are able to carry something uncommon."

Who acts: You, we · What happens: throw, reply, see, be, carry · To what, where: giant, something · 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 (You, we), 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	_	4 throw	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 throw	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 replied	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 see	advmod
14	truly	truly	ADV	_	17 see	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	parataxis
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 able	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 see	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 carry	mark
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 carry	obj
25	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 something	amod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw in a quote	can	You			well property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past		the giant			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
3	see in a quote	future	we		now	truly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			able property	tree rules
5	carry in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	something			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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