Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 41

He being behind, was very cheerful, and laughed at the trick, and presently began to sing the song, "There rode three tailors out at the gate," as if the carrying of trees were a trifle.

Who acts: Tailor, trifle · What happens: be, laugh, begin, sing, ride out, carry · To what, where: trick, song, three tailors, gate · 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, trifle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 behind	nsubj
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 behind	cop
3	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 cheerful	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 behind	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cheerful	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 cheerful	advmod
7	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laughed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laughed	cc
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cheerful	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 trick	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trick	det
13	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
16	presently	presently	ADV	_	17 began	advmod
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughed	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sing	mark
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 song	det
21	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rode	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 rode	punct
24	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 rode	expl
25	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 began	conj
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 tailors	nummod
27	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rode	obj
28	out	out	ADV	_	25 rode	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 gate	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gate	det
31	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rode	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 carrying	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 carrying	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 carrying	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 carrying	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 carrying	det
37	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 rode	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 trees	case
39	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 carrying	obl
40	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 carrying	ccomp
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 trifle	det
42	trifle	trifle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 were	nsubj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cheerful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Tailor			behind property	tree rules
2	is	past				cheerful property	tree rules
3	laugh	past			the trick		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past				presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sing speech: express	to-infinitive		the song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	ride out in a quote	past		three tailors	the gate; there	out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailor=Theme
7	carry	gerund				of trees	tree rules
8	be	past	a trifle				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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