Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 104
‘That is too bad!’ cried he, and sprang up like a madman, and pushed his companion against the tree until it shook.
Who acts: That, tailor, companion · What happens: be, cry, spring up, push, shake · To what, where: companion, tree
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 (That, tailor, companion), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bad | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 bad | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bad | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 bad | advmod |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 bad | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bad | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sprang | cc |
| 12 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 sprang | 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 sprang | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pushed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pushed | cc |
| 19 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 companion | nmod:poss |
| 21 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pushed | obj |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pushed | obl |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 shook | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 shook | nsubj |
| 27 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pushed | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | tailor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spring up | past | tailor not said here | like a madman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | push | past | tailor not said here | tailor's companion | the tree | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent companion=Theme against tree=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | shake | past | companion | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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