Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 46

But the Tailor was far too weak to hold the tree down, and when the Giant let go, the tree flew up in the air, and the Tailor was taken with it.

Who acts: Tailor, Giant let, tree · What happens: be, hold down, go, fly up, take · To what, where: tree, air, Tailor

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, Giant let, tree), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 weak	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tailor	det
3	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weak	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weak	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 weak	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 weak	advmod
7	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hold	mark
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 weak	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	9 hold	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 go	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 go	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 let	det
17	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 let	amod
18	let	let	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	nsubj
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 weak	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flew	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flew	nsubj
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 go	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 flew	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flew	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 taken	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 taken	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Tailor	det
31	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 taken	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 taken	aux:pass
33	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 go	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 taken	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 weak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Tailor			far, weak property	tree rules
2	hold down	to-infinitive	the Tailor not said here	the tree			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	go	infinitive	the Giant let				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fly up	past	the tree		the air		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
5	take	past · passive		the Tailor		with tree	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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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