Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 26

The little tailor went bravely up, spoke to him, and said: ‘Good day, comrade, so you are sitting there overlooking the wide-spread world!

Who acts: little tailor, you · What happens: go, speak, say, sit, overlook, spread · To what, where: tailor, spread 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 (little tailor, you), 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	3 tailor	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tailor	amod
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spoke	punct
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spoke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 day	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 day	punct
16	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 comrade	punct
19	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 day	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 sitting	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 sitting	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sitting	advmod
26	overlooking	overlook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sitting	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 spread	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 wide	punct
30	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 world	amod
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 overlooking	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the little tailor					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	the little tailor not said here		tailor			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
3	say speech: assert	past					day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	sit	present · progressive	you			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	overlook	gerund	you not said here	the spread world				vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme
6	spread	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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