Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 45

Then they travelled on further, and as they came to a cherry-tree, the Giant seized the top of the tree where the ripest cherries hung, and, bending it down, gave it to the Tailor to hold, telling him to eat.

Who acts: arms, Giant, ripest cherries · What happens: travel, come, seize, hang, bend down, give · To what, where: cherry tree, top, tree, Tailor · 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 (arms, Giant, ripest cherries), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 travelled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 travelled	nsubj
3	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 travelled	advmod
5	further	further	ADV	_	3 travelled	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
13	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tree	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 cherry	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seized	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Giant	det
18	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seized	nsubj
19	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 top	det
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seized	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 top	nmod
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 hung	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cherries	det
27	ripest	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 cherries	amod
28	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hung	nsubj
29	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tree	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gave	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 gave	cc
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bending	punct
33	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 gave	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bending	obj
35	down	down	ADP	_	33 bending	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 gave	punct
37	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seized	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 gave	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 Tailor	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Tailor	det
41	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gave	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 hold	mark
43	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 Tailor	acl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 telling	punct
45	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 gave	advcl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 telling	iobj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 eat	mark
48	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 telling	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	arms = arm				then	further property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	arms = arm			a cherry tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
3	seize	past	the Giant	the top of the tree					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Theme
4	hang	past	the ripest cherries						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bend down	gerund		tree					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent it=Material
6	give	past	the Giant not said here	tree	the Tailor				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tailor=Recipient
7	hold	to-infinitive	the Giant not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Giant not said here		Tailor				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
9	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Giant not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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