Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 95
Then the Tailor jumped down, saying, "What a piece of luck they did not pull up the tree on which I sat, or else I must have jumped on another like a squirrel, for I am not used to flying."
Who acts: Tailor, piece · What happens: jump down, say, not pull up, sit, have, jump · To what, where: tree, another, Tailor · 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, piece), 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 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tailor | det |
| 3 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 jumped | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 pull | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pull | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 luck | case |
| 14 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pull | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pull | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 pull | advmod |
| 18 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 pull | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pull | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 sat | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tree | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 28 | else | else | ADV | _ | 31 have | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 have | nsubj |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | aux |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jumped | parataxis |
| 32 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 another | case |
| 34 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 jumped | obl |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 squirrel | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 squirrel | det |
| 37 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 jumped | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 used | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 43 used | mark |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 used | nsubj |
| 41 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 used | aux:pass |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 used | advmod |
| 43 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 jumped | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 flying | mark |
| 45 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 43 used | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump down | past | the Tailor | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Tailor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not pull up in a quote | past · do-support | a piece of luck | the tree | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent what=Theme tree=Result | ||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | past | the Tailor = tailor | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | must | the Tailor = tailor | else property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | jump in a quote | past | the Tailor not said here | another | like a squirrel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on another=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | not use in a quote | present · passive | the Tailor = tailor | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 8 | fly in a quote | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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