Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 21

Before he went away, he sought about in the house to see if there was anything which he could take with him; however, he found nothing but an old cheese, and that he put in his pocket.

Who acts: tailor, anything · What happens: go away, seek, see, be, take, find · To what, where: house, nothing, pocket

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, anything), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sought	advcl
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sought	nsubj
7	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 sought	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sought	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sought	advcl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 see	ccomp
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 was	nsubj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 take	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 anything	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
25	however	however	ADV	_	28 found	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 however	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sought	parataxis
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 found	obj
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 cheese	cc
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cheese	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cheese	amod
33	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nothing	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 put	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 put	cc
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 put	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 put	nsubj
38	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 found	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 pocket	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 pocket	nmod:poss
41	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	past	tailor			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seek	past	tailor		the house	about property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
3	see	to-infinitive	tailor not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be a condition, not said to happen	past	anything		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	could				with tailor	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	find	past	tailor	nothing		however property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
7	put	past	tailor		tailor's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pocket=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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