Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 125
Before the wedding the tailor was to catch him a wild boar that made great havoc in the forest, and the huntsmen should give him their help.
Who acts: tailor, wild boar, huntsmen · What happens: be, make, give, help · To what, where: great havoc, forest, help, king
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 (tailor, wild boar, huntsmen), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 wedding | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wedding | det |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tailor | det |
| 5 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 catch | mark |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boar | det |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boar | amod |
| 12 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 boar | acl:relcl |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 havoc | amod |
| 16 | havoc | havoc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 huntsmen | det |
| 23 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 give | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 catch | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 help | nmod:poss |
| 28 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tailor | before the wedding | catch property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | a wild boar | great havoc | the forest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset havoc=Product | |||
| 3 | give | should | the huntsmen | huntsmen's help | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient help=Theme | |||
| 4 | help | huntsmen = huntsman | nom help «act 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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