Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 20
The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valour.
Who acts: tailor, workshop · What happens: put, resolve, go, think, be · To what, where: girdle, world · 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 (tailor, workshop), 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 | 2 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 girdle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girdle | det |
| 6 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resolved | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 resolved | cc |
| 9 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 resolved | xcomp |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 resolved | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 workshop | nmod:poss |
| 21 | workshop | workshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 small | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 small | cop |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 small | advmod |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 valour | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 valour | nmod:poss |
| 27 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 small | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the tailor | the girdle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on girdle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | resolve | participle | the tailor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the tailor not said here | the world | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | tailor | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | tailor's workshop | for tailor's valour; small property | tree rules |
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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