Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 107

‘It is a lucky thing,’ said he, ‘that they did not tear up the tree on which I was sitting, or I should have had to sprint on to another like a squirrel; but we tailors are nimble.’

Who acts: tree, tailor, branches, I, we · What happens: be, say, not tear up, sit, have, sprint on · To what, where: lucky thing, tree, another · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (tree, tailor, branches, I), 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	_	6 thing	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tear	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 tear	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 tear	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tear	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tear	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 tear	advmod
17	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 tear	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tear	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 sitting	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sitting	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sitting	aux
25	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 tree	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	aux
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 sitting	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sprint	mark
33	sprint	sprint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 sprint	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 another	case
36	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 sprint	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	39 squirrel	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 squirrel	det
39	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 another	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 nimble	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 nimble	cc
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 nimble	nsubj
43	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 we	nmod:unmarked
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 nimble	cop
45	nimble	nimble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 nimble	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	45 nimble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	tree	a lucky thing			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	tailor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not tear up	past · do-support	branches = branch	the tree			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
4	sit	past · progressive	I		the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
5	have	should · perfect	I				tree rules
6	sprint on	to-infinitive	I not said here		another		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to another=Destination
7	is	present	we			nimble property	tree rules

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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