Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 105

The other paid him back in the same coin, and they got into such a rage that they tore up trees and belaboured each other so long, that at last they both fell down dead on the ground at the same time.

Who acts: other, branches · What happens: pay back, get, tore up, belabour, fall down · To what, where: tailor, same coin, that, rage, trees, other

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 (other, branches), 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	2 other	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 paid	nsubj
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 paid	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 coin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coin	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coin	amod
9	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 rage	case
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rage	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rage	det
17	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 tore	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tore	nsubj
20	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	advcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 tore	compound:prt
22	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tore	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 belaboured	cc
24	belaboured	belabour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tore	conj
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 belaboured	obj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 belaboured	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 that	punct
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 got	obl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 last	case
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 got	obl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fell	nsubj
34	both	both	ADV	_	35 fell	advmod
35	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 last	acl:relcl
36	down	down	ADV	_	37 dead	advmod
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fell	xcomp
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
41	at	at	ADP	_	44 time	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 time	det
43	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 time	amod
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fell	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back	past	the other	tailor	the same coin			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
2	get	past	branches = branch	that	such rage		at last	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into rage=Destination
3	tore up	past	branches = branch	trees				tree rules
4	belabour	participle	branches = branch not said here	each other			long property	tree rules
5	fall down	past	branches = branch		the ground	time	both, dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on 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: «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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