Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 53
Then the Giant said, "Since you are such a brave fellow, come with me to my house, and stop a night with me."
Who acts: Giant, you · What happens: say, be, come, stop · To what, where: brave fellow, house · 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 (Giant, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Giant | det |
| 3 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 7 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 13 fellow | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fellow | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fellow | cop |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 fellow | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fellow | det |
| 12 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fellow | amod |
| 13 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fellow | punct |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stop | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stop | cc |
| 23 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stop | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 stop | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Giant | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | such brave fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | my house | with the Giant = giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | stop in a quote | infinitive | night | with the Giant = giant | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
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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