Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 32

The giant read: ‘Seven at one stroke,’ and thought that they had been men whom the tailor had killed, and began to feel a little respect for the tiny fellow.

Who acts: giant read, legs · What happens: think, be, kill, begin, feel · To what, where: Seven, men, tailor, little respect · 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 read, legs), 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 read	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 read	amod
3	read	read	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Seven	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Seven	punct
6	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 thought	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 stroke	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 stroke	nummod
9	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Seven	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stroke	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Seven	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 men	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 men	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 men	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 men	cop
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thought	ccomp
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 tailor	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tailor	det
21	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 killed	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 killed	aux
23	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 men	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 began	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 began	cc
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 feel	mark
28	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 respect	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 respect	amod
31	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feel	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 fellow	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fellow	det
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 fellow	amod
35	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 respect	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the giant read	Seven at one stroke		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past · perfect	legs = leg	men		tree rules
3	kill	past · perfect · passive		the tailor		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	begin	past	the giant read not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	feel	to-infinitive	the giant read not said here	a little respect	for the tiny fellow	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent respect=Location for fellow=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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