Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 15
When he drew it away and counted, there lay before him no fewer than seven, dead and with legs stretched out.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: draw away, count, lay, stretch out · To what, where: patience, legs
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 counted | cc |
| 7 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 drew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 lay | advmod |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drew | conj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lay | obl |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 fewer | advmod |
| 14 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 lay | advcl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 seven | case |
| 16 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fewer | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dead | punct |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lay | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stretched | cc |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 22 stretched | mark |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stretched | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 dead | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 stretched | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw away | past | tailor | patience | away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | count | participle | tailor not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | tailor not said here | there | before tailor | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination | |||
| 4 | stretch out | participle · passive | legs | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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