Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 93

Then the Tailor began his fun again, and, picking out the largest stone, threw it with all his strength upon the chest of the first Giant. "

Who acts: Tailor · What happens: begin, pick out, throw · To what, where: fun, largest 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tailor	det
3	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fun	nmod:poss
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 picking	punct
11	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 threw	ccomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 picking	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stone	det
14	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 stone	amod
15	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picking	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 picking	punct
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 strength	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 strength	det:predet
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 strength	nmod:poss
22	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 chest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chest	det
25	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 strength	nmod
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 Giant	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Giant	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 Giant	amod
29	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 chest	acl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Tailor	Tailor's fun	then; again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Eventuality
2	pick out	gerund		the largest stone			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	throw	past	the Tailor not said here	fun		with Tailor's strength upon the chest	tree rules

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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