Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 42

The Giant, after he had staggered a very short distance with his heavy load, could go no further, and called out, "Do you hear?

Who acts: Tailor, you · What happens: stagger, go, call out, hear · To what, where: short distance · 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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 staggered	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 staggered	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 staggered	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 staggered	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 staggered	aux
7	staggered	stagger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 called	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 distance	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 short	advmod
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 distance	amod
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 staggered	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 load	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 load	nmod:poss
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 load	amod
15	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 distance	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 staggered	conj
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 further	advmod
20	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 go	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 called	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hear	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 hear	punct
27	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hear	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 hear	nsubj
29	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 called	advcl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stagger	past · perfect	Tailor	a short distance	with Tailor's heavy load	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus distance=Experiencer
2	go	could	Tailor not said here		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call out speech: ask	participle				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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