Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 7

"Now!" exclaimed the Tailor, "Heaven will send me a blessing on this jam, and give me fresh strength and vigor;" and, taking the bread from the cupboard, he cut himself a slice the size of the whole loaf, and spread the jam upon it. "

Who acts: Tailor, Heaven · What happens: exclaim, send, give, take, cut, spread · To what, where: blessing, Tailor, jam, fresh strength, bread, cupboard · 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 (Tailor, Heaven), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 exclaimed	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tailor	det
7	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 send	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 send	punct
10	Heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 send	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 send	aux
12	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exclaimed	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 send	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 blessing	det
15	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 send	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 jam	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 jam	det
18	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blessing	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 give	cc
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 send	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 give	iobj
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 strength	amod
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 vigor	cc
26	vigor	vigor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strength	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 taking	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taking	punct
31	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 exclaimed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bread	det
33	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taking	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 cupboard	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cupboard	det
36	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taking	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cut	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cut	nsubj
39	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	parataxis
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 cut	obj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 slice	det
42	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cut	obj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 size	det
44	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 slice	appos
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 loaf	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 loaf	det
47	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 loaf	amod
48	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 size	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 spread	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 spread	cc
51	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 cut	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 jam	det
53	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 spread	obj
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 spread	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the Tailor				now	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	send in a quote	future	Heaven	a blessing	the Tailor = tailor	this jam		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination blessing=Theme
3	give in a quote	infinitive	Heaven not said here	fresh strength and vigor	the Tailor = tailor			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient strength=Theme
4	take	gerund	the Tailor not said here	the bread		the cupboard		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from cupboard=Initial_Location
5	cut	past	Heaven	Tailor				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary slice=Product
6	spread	past	Heaven not said here	the jam		loaf		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jam=Theme upon it=Destination

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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