Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 112

The horsemen would not believe him, and rode into the forest; there they found the giants swimming in their blood, and all round about lay the torn-up trees.

Who acts: horsemen, giants · What happens: not believe, ride, find, swim, lie, tear up · To what, where: tailor, forest, giants, blood, torn trees

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 (horsemen, giants), 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 horsemen	det
2	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 believe	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 believe	advmod
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 believe	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rode	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rode	cc
9	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rode	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 found	expl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giants	det
18	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 found	obj
19	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 giants	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 blood	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 blood	nmod:poss
22	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 swimming	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
25	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 lay	advmod
26	round	round	ADV	_	25 all	fixed
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 lay	advmod
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
30	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 trees	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 up	punct
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 torn	compound:prt
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lay	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not believe	would	the horsemen	tailor			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	ride	past	the horsemen not said here		the forest		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory
3	find	past	horsemen = horseman	the giants	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
4	swim	gerund	the giants not said here		horsemen's blood		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blood=Trajectory
5	lie	past	horsemen = horseman not said here	the torn trees		about, all property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme
6	tear up	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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