Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 16
‘Are you a fellow of that sort?’ said he, and could not help admiring his own bravery.
Who acts: you, tailor · What happens: be, say, not help, admire · To what, where: fellow, own bravery · 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 (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fellow | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fellow | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sort | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 sort | det |
| 8 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fellow | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 help | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 help | advmod |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | admiring | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 help | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bravery | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bravery | amod |
| 21 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 admiring | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a fellow | of that sort | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | tailor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not help | could | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | admire not said to happen | gerund | tailor's own bravery | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bravery=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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