Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 29
The giant looked contemptuously at the tailor, and said: ‘You ragamuffin!
Who acts: giant, You · What happens: look, say, ragamuffin · 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 (giant, 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 | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | contemptuously | contemptuously | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 tailor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tailor | det |
| 7 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 ragamuffin | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ragamuffin | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ragamuffin | nsubj |
| 14 | ragamuffin | ragamuffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the giant | at the tailor; contemptuously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tailor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ragamuffin | You | 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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