Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 59
When midnight came, and the Giant fancied the Tailor would be in a sound sleep, he got up, and taking a heavy iron bar, beat the bed right through at one stroke, and believed he had thereby given the Tailor his death-blow.
Who acts: midnight, Giant, Tailor · What happens: come, fancy, be, get up, take, beat · To what, where: sound sleep, heavy iron bar, bed, one stroke, Tailor · 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 (midnight, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fancied | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fancied | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Giant | det |
| 7 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fancied | nsubj |
| 8 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tailor | det |
| 10 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sleep | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sleep | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sleep | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sleep | det |
| 15 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sleep | compound |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fancied | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 got | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 taking | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 taking | cc |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 got | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bar | det |
| 25 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bar | amod |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bar | compound |
| 27 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 beat | punct |
| 29 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bed | det |
| 31 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beat | obj |
| 32 | right | right | ADV | _ | 29 beat | advmod |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 stroke | case |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 stroke | case |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 stroke | nummod |
| 36 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beat | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 believed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 believed | cc |
| 39 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | conj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 given | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 given | aux |
| 42 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 43 given | advmod |
| 43 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 believed | ccomp |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Tailor | det |
| 45 | Tailor | Tailor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 given | iobj |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 blow | nmod:poss |
| 47 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 blow | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 death | punct |
| 49 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 given | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fancy | past | the Giant | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | would | the Tailor | a sound sleep | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get up | past | Tailor | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | take | gerund | Tailor not said here | a heavy iron bar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | beat | past | Tailor not said here | the bed | one stroke | right property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bed=Theme | ||
| 7 | believe | past | Tailor not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | give | past · perfect · passive | Tailor | the Tailor | thereby property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | blow | Tailor | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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