Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 60
At the dawn of day the Giants went out into the forest, quite forgetting the Tailor, when presently up he came, quite cheerful, and showed himself before them.
Who acts: Giants, Tailor · What happens: go out, forget, come, show · To what, where: forest, Tailor
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 (Giants, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 dawn | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dawn | det |
| 3 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawn | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Giants | det |
| 7 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgetting | punct |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 forgetting | advmod |
| 15 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tailor | det |
| 17 | Tailor | Tailor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 forgetting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 came | advmod |
| 20 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Tailor | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cheerful | punct |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 cheerful | advmod |
| 26 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 came | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 showed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 showed | cc |
| 29 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 showed | iobj |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 showed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the Giants | the forest | dawn | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | forget | gerund | the Giants not said here | the Tailor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Tailor | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | past | the Giants not said here | Tailor | before hunters = hunter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient |
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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