Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 44

The Tailor, jumping down, quickly embraced the tree with both arms, as if he had been carrying it, and said to the Giant, "Are you such a big fellow, and yet cannot you carry a tree by yourself?"

Who acts: Tailor, you · What happens: jump down, embrace, carry, say, be, not carry · To what, where: tree, big fellow · 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 Tailor	det
2	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 embraced	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumping	punct
4	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Tailor	acl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 jumping	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tailor	punct
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	8 embraced	advmod
8	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 embraced	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 arms	case
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 arms	det
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 embraced	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carrying	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 carrying	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 carrying	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carrying	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carrying	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 carrying	aux
20	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 embraced	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carrying	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 embraced	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Giant	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Giant	det
27	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fellow	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 fellow	punct
30	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 fellow	cop
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 fellow	nsubj
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 fellow	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fellow	det
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fellow	amod
35	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 carry	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 carry	cc
38	yet	yet	ADV	_	42 carry	advmod
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 carry	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 carry	advmod
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 carry	nsubj
42	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 fellow	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 tree	det
44	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 carry	obj
45	by	by	ADP	_	46 yourself	case
46	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 carry	obl
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 fellow	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	jump down	gerund	the Tailor not said here			down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	embrace	past	the Tailor	the tree		with both arms; quickly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Co-Agent
3	carry	past · perfect · progressive	Tailor	tree			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	say speech: ask	past	the Tailor not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	you	such big fellow			tree rules
6	not carry in a quote	can	you	a tree	yet	by yourself	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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