Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 130
The little tailor called the huntsmen thither that they might see the prisoner with their own eyes.
Who acts: little tailor, huntsmen · What happens: call, see · To what, where: huntsmen, prisoner · 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 (little tailor, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tailor | amod |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tailor | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 huntsmen | det |
| 6 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | obj |
| 7 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 called | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prisoner | det |
| 13 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tailor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the little tailor not said here | the huntsmen | thither property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent huntsman=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see | might | huntsmen = huntsman | the prisoner | with huntsmen's own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prisoner=Stimulus |
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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