Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 103

The little tailor began his game again, picked out the biggest stone, and threw it with all his might on the breast of the first giant.

Who acts: little tailor · What happens: begin, pick out, throw · To what, where: game, biggest stone, stone

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» 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 (little 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	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 game	nmod:poss
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 picked	punct
9	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 picked	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stone	det
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 stone	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 picked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 threw	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	24 breast	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 breast	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 breast	nmod:poss
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 breast	aux
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 breast	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 breast	det
24	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 giant	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 giant	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 giant	amod
28	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 breast	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the little tailor	tailor's game	again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality
2	pick out	participle	the little tailor not said here	the biggest stone			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	throw	past		stone		with tailor's breast of the first giant	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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