Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 38
So saying, he took him to a large oak tree, which lay upon the ground, and said, "If you are strong enough, now help me to carry this tree out of the forest."
Who acts: Giant, large oak tree, you · What happens: say, take, lie, be, help, carry · To what, where: Tailor, large oak tree, ground, Giant, tree, forest · 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 (Giant, large oak tree, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 took | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 10 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tree | acl:relcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 strong | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 strong | punct |
| 23 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 strong | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 strong | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 strong | cop |
| 26 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 26 strong | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 help | punct |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 help | advmod |
| 30 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 strong | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 help | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 carry | mark |
| 33 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 help | xcomp |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 tree | det |
| 35 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carry | obj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 forest | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 forest | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 forest | det |
| 39 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carry | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Giant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Giant | Tailor | a large oak tree | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to tree=Destination | |||
| 3 | lie | past | a large oak tree | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Giant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Giant | now | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 7 | carry in a quote | to-infinitive | Giant not said here | this tree | the forest | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme out forest=Initial_Location |
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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