Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 14

The little tailor at last lost all patience, and drew a piece of cloth from the hole under his work-table, and saying: ‘Wait, and I will give it to you,’ struck it mercilessly on them.

Who acts: little tailor, I, ’ · What happens: lose, draw, say, wait, give, strike · To what, where: patience, piece, hole, you · 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, 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	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	11 drew	nsubj
4	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 lost	mark
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lost	amod
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tailor	acl:relcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 patience	det
8	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drew	cc
11	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drew	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 cloth	case
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 hole	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hole	det
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drew	obl
19	under	under	ADP	_	23 table	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 table	nmod:poss
21	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 table	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 work	punct
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hole	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saying	cc
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 drew	advcl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 Wait	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 Wait	punct
29	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 saying	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 give	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 Wait	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 give	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 struck	punct
39	’	'	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 struck	nsubj
40	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 Wait	advcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 struck	obj
42	mercilessly	mercilessly	ADV	_	40 struck	advmod
43	on	on	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 struck	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	participle	the little tailor not said here	all patience				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
2	draw	past	the little tailor	a piece of cloth		the hole under tailor's work table		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from hole=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the little tailor not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wait	infinitive						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	future	I	piece	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient
6	strike	past	’	piece			on flies = fly; mercilessly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on they=Patient

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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