Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 18

And the little tailor hastened to cut himself a girdle, stitched it, and embroidered on it in large letters: ‘Seven at one stroke!’

Who acts: little tailor · What happens: hasten, cut, stitch, embroider · To what, where: little tailor, tailor, girdle

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 stitched	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tailor	amod
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stitched	nsubj
5	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tailor	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cut	mark
7	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hastened	xcomp
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 cut	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girdle	det
10	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tailor	punct
12	stitched	stitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stitched	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 embroidered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 embroidered	cc
16	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 stitched	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 embroidered	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 letters	case
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 letters	amod
21	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 embroidered	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Seven	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Seven	punct
24	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 stitched	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 stroke	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 stroke	nummod
27	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Seven	nmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 stitched	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 stitched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hasten	participle		the little tailor not said here			tree rules
2	cut	to-infinitive		tailor			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary girdle=Product
3	stitch	past	the little tailor	girdle		Seven at one stroke obl	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	embroider	participle	the little tailor not said here		girdle	in large letters	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination

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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