Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 121

‘Softly, softly; it can’t be done as quickly as that,’ said he, and stood still and waited until the animal was quite close, and then sprang nimbly behind the tree.

Who acts: blow, animal · What happens: not do, say, stand, wait, be, spring · To what, where: dwelling, tree · 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 (blow, animal), 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	_	2 Softly	punct
2	Softly	softly	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 softly	punct
4	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 Softly	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj:pass
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 done	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	ccomp
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 quickly	advmod
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 done	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 that	case
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 done	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stood	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stood	cc
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
22	still	still	ADV	_	21 stood	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 waited	cc
24	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stood	conj
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 close	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 animal	det
27	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 close	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 close	cop
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 close	advmod
30	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 waited	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sprang	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sprang	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 sprang	advmod
34	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stood	conj
35	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	34 sprang	advmod
36	behind	behind	ADP	_	38 tree	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tree	det
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sprang	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	can · passive		dwelling			as that; quickly, softly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	blow					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stand	past	blow not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wait	past	blow not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the animal				close property	tree rules
6	spring	past	blow not said here		the tree	then	nimbly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind tree=Trajectory

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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