Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 82

Speaking thus, the little Tailor set out, followed by the hundred knights, to whom he said, immediately they came to the edge of the forest, "You must stay here; I prefer to meet these Giants alone."

Who acts: little Tailor, Tailor, knights, You · What happens: speak, set out, follow, say, come, stay · To what, where: edge, Giants · 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 (little Tailor, Tailor, knights, You), 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	Speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 set	advcl
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	1 Speaking	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Speaking	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tailor	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Tailor	amod
6	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 set	nsubj
7	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 set	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 followed	punct
10	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 set	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 knights	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knights	det
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 knights	nummod
14	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 followed	obl:agent
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whom	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 whom	case
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 set	parataxis
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 whom	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 edge	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 edge	det
26	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 forest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 edge	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stay	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 stay	punct
32	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 stay	nsubj
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 stay	aux
34	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	conj
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 stay	advmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 prefer	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 prefer	nsubj
38	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 set	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 meet	mark
40	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 prefer	xcomp
41	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 Giants	det
42	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	40 meet	obj
43	alone	alone	ADV	_	40 meet	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund	the little Tailor not said here			thus property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set out	past	the little Tailor				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	follow	participle					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Tailor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come	past	knights = knight		the edge of the forest	immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location
6	stay in a quote	must	You		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	prefer in a quote	present	Tailor				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	meet not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Tailor not said here	this Giants		alone property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent

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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