Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 49

My strength did not fail me," said the Tailor; "do you imagine that that was a hard task for one who has slain seven at one blow?

Who acts: strength, Tailor, you, that · What happens: not fail, say, imagine, be, slay · To what, where: me, hard task, seven, one blow · 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 (strength, Tailor, you, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 strength	nmod:poss
2	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fail	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fail	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 fail	advmod
5	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fail	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fail	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fail	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fail	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tailor	det
11	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 imagine	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 imagine	punct
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 imagine	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 imagine	nsubj
16	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fail	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 task	mark
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 task	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 task	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 task	det
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 task	amod
22	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 imagine	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 task	appos
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 slain	nsubj
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 slain	aux
27	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 one	acl:relcl
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 slain	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 blow	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 blow	nummod
31	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seven	nmod
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not fail	past · do-support	My strength	me		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Tailor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	imagine	present · do-support	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is a	past	that	a hard task		tree rules
5	slay	present · perfect		seven	one blow	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient

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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