Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 116

‘I fear one unicorn still less than two giants.

Who acts: I · What happens: fear · To what, where: one unicorn

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 (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	_	3 fear	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fear	nsubj
3	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 unicorn	nummod
5	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fear	obj
6	still	still	ADV	_	3 fear	advmod
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 two	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 less	fixed
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 giants	nummod
10	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fear	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	present	I	one unicorn			still		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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