Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 63

Whilst he lay there the people came and viewed him on all sides, and read upon his belt, "Seven at one blow." "

Who acts: Tailor, people · What happens: lie, come, view, read · To what, where: Tailor, sides, Seven

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, people), 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	3 lay	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 viewed	cc
9	viewed	view	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 viewed	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 sides	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sides	det
13	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 viewed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 read	cc
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 belt	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 belt	nmod:poss
19	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 read	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Seven	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Seven	punct
22	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 read	obl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 blow	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 blow	nummod
25	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Seven	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Tailor		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the people				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	view	past	the people not said here	Tailor	all sides		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	read	infinitive	the people not said here	Seven at one blow		upon Tailor's belt	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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