Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 86
For some time the Giant did not move, until, at last awaking, he pushed his companion, and said, "Why are you hitting me?"
Who acts: Tailor, you · What happens: not move, push, say, hit · To what, where: companion, last awaking, me · 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 (Tailor, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 move | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Giant | det |
| 5 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 move | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 move | advmod |
| 8 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pushed | punct |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 pushed | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 awaking | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 awaking | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 awaking | amod |
| 14 | awaking | awaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pushed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 awaking | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pushed | nsubj |
| 17 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 move | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 companion | nmod:poss |
| 19 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pushed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 move | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 hitting | punct |
| 25 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 hitting | advmod |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hitting | aux |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 hitting | nsubj |
| 28 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 said | ccomp |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 hitting | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 hitting | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 hitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | past · do-support | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | push | past | Tailor | Tailor's companion | last awaking | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent companion=Theme at awaking=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | hit in a quote | present · progressive | you | me | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme |
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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