Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 33

Nevertheless, he wished to try him first, and took a stone in his hand and squeezed it together so that water dropped out of it.

Who acts: tailor, water · What happens: wish, try, take, squeeze, drop out · To what, where: tailor, stone, hand

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 (tailor, water), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	4 wished	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wished	nsubj
4	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 try	mark
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wished	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 try	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 try	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wished	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 squeezed	cc
18	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 squeezed	obj
20	together	together	ADV	_	18 squeezed	advmod
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	24 dropped	mark
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dropped	nsubj
24	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 squeezed	advcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 it	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dropped	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	past	tailor			nevertheless property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	tailor not said here	tailor		first property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	take	past		a stone	tailor's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in hand=Location
4	squeeze	past		stone		together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	drop out	past	that water	stone			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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