Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 80
"Ah, that is something for a man like me," thought the Tailor to himself: "a lovely Princess and half a kingdom are not offered to one every day." "
Who acts: that, Tailor · What happens: be, think, not offer · To what, where: something, Tailor, lovely Princess, one · 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, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 something | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 something | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | cop |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 something | nmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 something | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tailor | det |
| 16 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 thought | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Princess | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Princess | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Princess | det |
| 22 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Princess | amod |
| 23 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 kingdom | cc |
| 25 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 27 kingdom | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 kingdom | det |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Princess | conj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 offered | aux:pass |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 offered | advmod |
| 30 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 something | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 offered | obl |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 offered | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | something | for a man like me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Tailor | Tailor | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not offer in a quote | present · passive | a lovely Princess and half kingdom | one | day | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to one=Goal |
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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