Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 140

The little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to cry out in a clear voice: ‘Boy, make me the doublet and patch me the pantaloons, or I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.

Who acts: little tailor, Boy, I · What happens: pretend, be, begin, cry out, make, rap · To what, where: clear voice, pantaloons, me, yard measure, ears

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, Boy, 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	13 began	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pretending	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 pretending	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pretending	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 pretending	advmod
8	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tailor	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 asleep	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 asleep	cop
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pretending	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tailor	punct
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cry	mark
15	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 cry	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 voice	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 voice	det
19	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 voice	amod
20	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cry	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 make	punct
23	Boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Boy	punct
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 doublet	det
28	doublet	doublet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 patch	cc
30	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 doublet	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 patch	nmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pantaloons	det
33	pantaloons	pantaloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 make	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rap	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 rap	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 rap	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 rap	aux
38	rap	rap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 make	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 measure	det
40	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 measure	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 yard	punct
42	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rap	obj
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 ears	case
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 ears	nmod:poss
45	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 rap	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	the little tailor					tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	the little tailor not said here				asleep property	tree rules
3	begin	past	the little tailor					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry out speech: express	to-infinitive	the little tailor not said here			a clear voice		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location
5	make	infinitive	Boy	the pantaloons	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary pantaloon=Product
6	rap	future	I	the yard measure		your ears		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=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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