Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 24
Now he took to the road boldly, and as he was light and nimble, he felt no fatigue.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: take, be, feel · To what, where: fatigue
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 took | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 light | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 light | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 light | cop |
| 13 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nimble | cc |
| 15 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 light | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 light | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 fatigue | det |
| 20 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | tailor | now | to the road result; boldly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | tailor | light property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | tailor not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | feel | past | tailor | no fatigue | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fatigue=Theme |
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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