Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 94

This is too bad!" he exclaimed; and, jumping up like a madman, he fell upon his companion, who considered himself equally injured, and they set to in such good earnest, that they rooted up trees and beat one another about until they both fell dead upon the ground.

Who acts: This, Tailor, companion, stones · What happens: be, exclaim, jump up, fall, consider, set · To what, where: companion, Tailor, such good earnest, trees, one, ground · 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 (This, Tailor, companion, stones), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 bad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 exclaimed	nsubj
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	acl:relcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 and	punct
12	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 fell	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 jumping	compound:prt
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 madman	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 madman	det
16	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jumping	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 jumping	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	parataxis
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 companion	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 companion	nmod:poss
22	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 considered	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 considered	nsubj
25	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 companion	acl:relcl
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 considered	obj
27	equally	equally	ADV	_	28 injured	advmod
28	injured	injured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 considered	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 set	cc
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 set	nsubj
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	32 set	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 earnest	case
35	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 earnest	amod
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 earnest	amod
37	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 set	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rooted	punct
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 rooted	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 rooted	nsubj
41	rooted	root	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	conj
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 rooted	compound:prt
43	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rooted	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 beat	cc
45	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 rooted	conj
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 beat	obj
47	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	46 one	fixed
48	about	about	ADV	_	45 beat	advmod
49	until	until	SCONJ	_	52 fell	mark
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 fell	nsubj
51	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	52 fell	nsubj
52	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 beat	advcl
53	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 fell	xcomp
54	upon	upon	ADP	_	56 ground	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 ground	det
56	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fell	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	This			bad property	tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	Tailor				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	jump up in a quote	gerund	Tailor not said here			like a madman	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall in a quote	past	Tailor		Tailor's companion		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon companion=Location
5	consider in a quote	past	Tailor's companion	Tailor		injured property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute
6	set in a quote	past	stones = stone		such good earnest		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in earn=Destination
7	root up in a quote	past	stones = stone	trees			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
8	beat in a quote	infinitive	stones = stone not said here	one		about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
9	fall in a quote	past	stones = stone		the ground	dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location

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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