Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 54

The Tailor agreed, and followed him; and when they came to the cave, there sat by the fire two other Giants, each with a roast sheep in his hand, of which he was eating.

Who acts: Tailor, hunters, Giant · What happens: agree, follow, come, sit, eat · To what, where: Tailor, cave, two other Giants, hand

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 (Tailor, hunters, Giant), 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 Tailor	det
2	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 followed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 followed	cc
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 followed	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 cave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cave	det
15	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 sat	expl
18	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 agreed	parataxis
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 Giants	nummod
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Giants	amod
24	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 sat	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 each	punct
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 Giants	appos
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 sheep	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sheep	det
29	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sheep	compound
30	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 each	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 eating	punct
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 eating	obl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 eating	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 eating	aux
39	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sat	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the Tailor				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	follow	past	the Tailor not said here	Tailor			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	come	past	hunters = hunter		the cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cave=Initial_Location
4	sit	participle		two other Giants	Giant's hand; there	by the fire	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme by fire=Location
5	eat	past · progressive	Giant				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/13/54/