Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 108

He drew out his sword and gave each of them a couple of thrusts in the breast, and then went out to the horsemen and said: ‘The work is done; I have finished both of them off, but it was hard work!

Who acts: tailor, I, work · What happens: draw out, give, go out, say, do, finish off · To what, where: sword, each, breast, work, hard work · 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 (tailor, I, work), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 drew	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sword	nmod:poss
5	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 gave	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 each	nmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 couple	det
12	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 thrusts	case
14	thrusts	thrust	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 couple	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 breast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 breast	det
17	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 went	advmod
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 horsemen	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horsemen	det
25	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 done	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 done	punct
30	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 work	det
31	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 done	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 done	aux:pass
33	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 said	ccomp
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 finished	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 finished	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 finished	aux
37	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 drew	conj
38	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	41 off	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 both	nmod
41	off	off	ADP	_	37 finished	compound:prt
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 work	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 work	cc
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 work	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 work	cop
46	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 work	amod
47	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 finished	obl
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw out	past	tailor	tailor's sword				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
2	give	past	tailor not said here	each	the breast			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient couple=Theme
3	go out	past	tailor not said here			then	to the horsemen; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	tailor not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	present · passive		the work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	finish off	present · perfect	I					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	is a	past	work	hard work				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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