Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 47
He came down on the other side, however, unhurt, and the Giant said, "What does that mean?
Who acts: Tailor, Giant, that · What happens: come down, say, mean · To what, where: other side · 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, Giant, that), 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 | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 side | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 side | amod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unhurt | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 unhurt | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unhurt | punct |
| 11 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Giant | det |
| 15 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mean | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 mean | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 mean | obj |
| 20 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 mean | aux |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 mean | nsubj |
| 22 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Tailor | the other side | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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