Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 52

The Giant made the attempt, but could not clear the tree, and stuck fast in the branches; so that in this affair, too, the Tailor had the advantage.

Who acts: Giant, Tailor · What happens: make, not clear, stick, have · To what, where: attempt, tree, branches, advantage

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 (Giant, Tailor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 attempt	det
5	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 clear	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 clear	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 clear	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 clear	advmod
10	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clear	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stuck	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stuck	cc
15	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 made	parataxis
16	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 stuck	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 branches	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 branches	det
19	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stuck	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 affair	mark
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 affair	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 affair	det
25	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 affair	punct
27	too	too	ADV	_	25 affair	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 affair	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Tailor	det
30	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 advantage	det
33	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Giant	the attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product
2	not clear	could	the Giant not said here	the tree			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tree=Source
3	stick	participle			the branches	fast property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in branch=Destination
4	have	past	the Tailor	the advantage			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=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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