Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 81
Oh, yes," he replied, "I will soon settle these two Giants, and a hundred horsemen are not needed for that purpose; he who kills seven at one blow has no fear of two."
Who acts: kingdom, I, one blow · What happens: reply, settle, not need, kill, have · To what, where: two Giants, hundred horsemen, seven, fear · 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 (kingdom, I, one blow), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 replied | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yes | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 settle | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 settle | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 settle | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 settle | aux |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 settle | advmod |
| 13 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 Giants | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Giants | nummod |
| 16 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 settle | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 needed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 needed | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 horsemen | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 horsemen | nummod |
| 21 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 needed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 needed | aux:pass |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 needed | advmod |
| 24 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 purpose | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 purpose | det |
| 27 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 needed | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 kills | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 kills | nsubj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 kills | nsubj |
| 31 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 32 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 kills | obj |
| 33 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 36 has | mark |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 blow | nummod |
| 35 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 has | nsubj |
| 36 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 kills | advcl |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 fear | det |
| 38 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 has | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 two | case |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 fear | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 kills | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 kills | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | kingdom | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | settle | future | I | this two Giants | soon property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme giant=Location | |||
| 3 | not need | present · passive | a hundred horsemen | for that purpose | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | present | kingdom | seven | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | one blow | no fear of two | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=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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