Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 25

The road led him up a mountain, and when he had reached the highest point of it, there sat a powerful giant looking peacefully about him.

Who acts: road, tailor · What happens: lead up, reach, sit, look, point · To what, where: tailor, highest point, powerful giant, road

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 (road, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 led	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reached	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 reached	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 reached	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 reached	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reached	aux
13	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 led	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 point	det
15	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 point	amod
16	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reached	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 point	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 sat	expl
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 giant	det
23	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 giant	amod
24	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obj
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sat	advcl
26	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	25 looking	advmod
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looking	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead up	past	the road	tailor			tree rules
2	reach	past · perfect	tailor	the highest point of road			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme
3	sit	past		a powerful giant	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme
4	look	gerund				about tailor; peacefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
5	point			road			nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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