Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 39

"With pleasure," replied the Tailor; "you may hold the trunk upon your shoulder, and I will lift the boughs and branches, they are the heaviest, and carry them."

Who acts: pleasure, you, boughs · What happens: reply, hold, lift, be, carry · To what, where: Tailor, trunk, shoulder, boughs · 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 (pleasure, you, boughs), 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 pleasure	punct
2	With	with	ADP	_	3 pleasure	case
3	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pleasure	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 pleasure	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tailor	det
8	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hold	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hold	aux
13	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 replied	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trunk	det
15	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 shoulder	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoulder	nmod:poss
18	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lift	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lift	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 lift	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 lift	aux
23	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hold	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boughs	det
25	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lift	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 branches	cc
27	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 boughs	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heaviest	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 heaviest	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 heaviest	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 heaviest	det
32	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 lift	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 carry	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 carry	cc
35	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hold	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carry	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	pleasure	the Tailor			tree rules
2	hold in a quote	may	you	the trunk	your shoulder		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme upon shoulder=Location
3	lift in a quote	future	pleasure	the boughs and branches			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	boughs = bough			heavy property	tree rules
5	carry in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	boughs = bough			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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