Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 85

When he got to the middle of it he crawled along a bough, so that he sat just above the sleepers, and then he let fall one stone after another upon the body of one of them.

Who acts: Tailor · What happens: get, crawl, sit, let, fall · To what, where: bough, sleepers, one stone

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crawled	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 middle	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crawled	nsubj
10	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 bough	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bough	det
13	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crawled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 sat	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crawled	parataxis
19	just	just	ADV	_	22 sleepers	advmod
20	above	above	ADP	_	22 sleepers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sleepers	det
22	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 let	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	nsubj
27	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
28	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 stone	nummod
30	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fall	obj
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 another	case
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 fall	obl
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 body	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 body	det
35	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fall	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 one	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 body	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 one	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 crawled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Tailor				to the middle of middle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to middle=Result
2	crawl	past	Tailor		a bough			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bough=Trajectory
3	sit	past	Tailor	the sleepers				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sleeper=Theme
4	let	past	Tailor			then		tree rules
5	fall	infinitive	Tailor not said here	one stone		after another	upon the body of one of stones	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stone=Result

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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