Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 109

They tore up trees in their sore need, and defended themselves with them, but all that is to no purpose when a man like myself comes, who can kill seven at one blow.’

Who acts: branches, all, man · What happens: tore up, defend, be, come, kill, need · To what, where: trees, sore need, branches, seven, one blow

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 (branches, all, man), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 tore	compound:prt
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tore	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 need	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 need	nmod:poss
7	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 need	amod
8	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tore	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 defended	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 defended	cc
11	defended	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tore	conj
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 defended	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 defended	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 purpose	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 purpose	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 purpose	nsubj
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 all	obj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 purpose	cop
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 purpose	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 purpose	det
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 defended	obl
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	28 comes	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 myself	case
27	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 man	nmod
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 purpose	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 kill	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kill	aux
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 comes	advcl
33	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 kill	obj
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 blow	case
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 blow	nummod
36	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seven	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tore up	past	branches = branch	trees	branches's sore need		tree rules
2	defend	past	branches = branch not said here	branches = branch		with branches = branch	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
3	is	present	all			to no purpose	tree rules
4	come	present	a man like myself				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kill	can		seven	one blow		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Theme
6	need		branches = branch				nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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