Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 6
The woman, who hoped to have met with a good customer, gave him all he wished, and went off grumbling, and in a very bad temper.
Who acts: woman, three · What happens: hope, meet, give, wish, go off, grumble · To what, where: all, three, bad temper · 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 (woman, three), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoped | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 hoped | nsubj |
| 5 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 woman | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 met | mark |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 met | aux |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hoped | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 customer | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 customer | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 customer | amod |
| 12 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 woman | punct |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 all | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 went | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 temper | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 temper | cc |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 temper | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 temper | det |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 bad | advmod |
| 29 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 temper | amod |
| 30 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past | the woman | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | with a good customer | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with customer=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the woman | all | three | a bad temper | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Theme | ||
| 4 | wish | past | three | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | go off | past | the woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | grumble speech: other | gerund | the woman not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=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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