Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 77

For a long time he deliberated, till finally he came to a decision; and, sending for the Tailor, he told him that, seeing he was so great a hero, he wished to beg a favor of him. "

Who acts: Tailor · What happens: deliberate, come, send, tell, see, be · To what, where: decision, that, King, favor, 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 (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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deliberated	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 deliberated	nsubj
6	deliberated	deliberate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	finally	finally	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deliberated	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 decision	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 decision	det
14	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 and	punct
18	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 told	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 Tailor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Tailor	det
21	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sending	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sending	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deliberated	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 told	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seeing	punct
28	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 told	advcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 great	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 great	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 great	advmod
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seeing	ccomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hero	det
34	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 great	obl:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wished	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wished	nsubj
37	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deliberated	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 beg	mark
39	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 wished	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 favor	det
41	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 beg	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 favor	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 deliberated	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 deliberated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deliberate	past	Tailor				time		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Tailor			a decision		finally property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to decision=Initial_Location
3	send	gerund	Tailor not said here					for the Tailor	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	Tailor	that	King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
5	see	gerund	Tailor not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	Tailor					a hero obl:unmarked; great property	tree rules
7	wish	past	Tailor						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	beg speech: request not said to happen	to-infinitive	Tailor not said here	a favor of Tailor					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient
9	favor			Tailor					nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient

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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