Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 111

‘You need not concern yourself about that,’ answered the tailor, ‘they have not bent one hair of mine.’

Who acts: You · What happens: not need, answer, not bend · To what, where: concern, tailor, horsemen

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 (You), 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	_	3 need	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 need	advmod
5	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 concern	nmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 concern	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 need	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tailor	det
13	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bent	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 bent	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bent	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 bent	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bent	advmod
19	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 answered	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hair	nummod
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bent	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 mine	case
23	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hair	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not need	present	You	concern yourself		about that	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot concern=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			the tailor		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tailor=Eventuality
3	not bend	present · perfect · passive		horsemen = horseman			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient hair=Result

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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