Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 31

‘Oh, indeed?’ answered the little tailor, and unbuttoned his coat, and showed the giant the girdle, ‘there may you read what kind of a man I am!’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: answer, unbutton, show, read, be · To what, where: little tailor, coat, girdle, giant, kind

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 (you, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Oh	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tailor	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tailor	amod
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unbuttoned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 unbuttoned	cc
13	unbuttoned	unbutton	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 coat	nmod:poss
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unbuttoned	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 showed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 showed	cc
18	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 showed	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 girdle	det
22	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 showed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 read	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 read	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 read	expl
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 read	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 read	nsubj
28	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 showed	parataxis
29	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	30 kind	det
30	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 man	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 kind	nmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 kind	nsubj
35	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 kind	cop
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 read	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the little tailor			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tailor=Eventuality
2	unbutton	past		tailor's coat				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient
3	show	past		the girdle	the giant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient girdle=Topic
4	read	may	you			there		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	I	what kind			of a man	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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