Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 40

The Giant took the trunk upon his shoulder, but the Tailor sat down on one of the branches, and the Giant, who could not look round, was compelled to carry the whole tree and the Tailor also.

Who acts: Giant, Tailor · What happens: take, sit down, not look round, compel, carry · To what, where: trunk, whole tree

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, Tailor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 shoulder	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulder	nmod:poss
8	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tailor	det
12	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sat	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 branches	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 branches	det
19	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Giant	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Giant	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Giant	det
23	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sat	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 look	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 look	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 look	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 look	advmod
28	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Giant	conj
29	round	round	ADV	_	28 look	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 compelled	punct
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 compelled	aux:pass
32	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 took	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 carry	mark
34	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 compelled	xcomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tree	det
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 tree	amod
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carry	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Tailor	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Tailor	det
40	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 tree	conj
41	also	also	ADV	_	34 carry	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Giant	the trunk	upon Tailor's shoulder	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme
2	sit down	past	the Tailor		on one of the branches	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location
3	not look round	could			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	compel	past · passive	the Giant not said here			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
5	carry	to-infinitive	the Giant not said here	the whole tree and the Tailor		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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