Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 48

Are you not strong enough to hold that twig?" "

Who acts: you · What happens: not be, hold · To what, where: twig

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 (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	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 strong	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 strong	advmod
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	4 strong	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 strong	advcl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 twig	det
9	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	you					enough, strong property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	you not said here	that twig					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=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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