Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 132
Had he known that it was no warlike hero, but a little tailor who was standing before him, it would have gone to his heart still more than it did.
Who acts: hero, prisoner, little tailor · What happens: know, be, stand, go, do · To what, where: warlike hero, heart
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 (hero, prisoner, little tailor), 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 known | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 known | nsubj |
| 3 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 hero | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hero | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hero | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 hero | det |
| 8 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hero | amod |
| 9 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 known | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tailor | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 tailor | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tailor | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tailor | amod |
| 14 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hero | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 standing | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 standing | aux |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 tailor | acl:relcl |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 standing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gone | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 known | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 heart | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gone | obl |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 gone | advmod |
| 30 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 32 did | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 did | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 more | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · perfect | hero | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | prisoner | no warlike hero but a little tailor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | a little tailor | before hero | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 4 | go | would · perfect | prisoner | hero's heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | do | past | prisoner | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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