Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 8
That will taste very nice," said he; "but, before I take a bite, I will just finish this waistcoat."
Who acts: That, Heaven, I · What happens: taste, say, take, finish · To what, where: bite, waistcoat · 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 (That, Heaven, I), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 taste | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 taste | aux |
| 3 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 nice | advmod |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 taste | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taste | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 taste | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taste | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 but | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 14 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bite | det |
| 18 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 finish | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 finish | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 finish | aux |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 finish | advmod |
| 23 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | advcl |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 waistcoat | det |
| 25 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 finish | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taste | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | future | That | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Heaven | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | present | I | a bite | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme | ||||
| 4 | finish | future | I | this waistcoat | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector waistcoat=Eventuality |
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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