Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 5
He looked at them all, held them up to the light, smelt them, and at last said, "These jams seem to me to be very nice, so you may weigh me out two ounces, my good woman; I don't object even if you make it a quarter of a pound."
Who acts: three, jams, you, I · What happens: look, hold up, smelt, say, seem, be · To what, where: pots, last, me, object · 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 (three, jams, you, I), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | obl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 held | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 held | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smelt | punct |
| 14 | smelt | smelt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 held | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smelt | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seem | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 seem | punct |
| 23 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 jams | det |
| 24 | jams | jam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seem | nsubj |
| 25 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 seem | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 nice | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 nice | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 nice | advmod |
| 31 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 seem | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 weigh | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 weigh | advmod |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 weigh | nsubj |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 weigh | aux |
| 36 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 nice | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 weigh | obj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 weigh | compound:prt |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 ounces | nummod |
| 40 | ounces | ounce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 weigh | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 woman | punct |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 woman | nmod:poss |
| 43 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 woman | amod |
| 44 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 ounces | appos |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 do | punct |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 do | nsubj |
| 47 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 48 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 object | advmod |
| 49 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 do | obj |
| 50 | even | even | ADV | _ | 53 make | advmod |
| 51 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 53 make | mark |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 make | nsubj |
| 53 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 do | advcl |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 make | obj |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 quarter | det |
| 56 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 make | obj |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 pound | case |
| 58 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 59 pound | det |
| 59 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 quarter | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | three | at pots = pot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold up | past | three not said here | pots = pot | to the light | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 3 | smelt | infinitive | three not said here | pots = pot | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | seem in a quote | present | this jams | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | this jams not said here | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | weigh out in a quote | may | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | do in a quote | present | I | object | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | object | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary quarter=Product |
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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