Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 34
‘Do that likewise,’ said the giant, ‘if you have strength.’
Who acts: you · What happens: do, say, have · To what, where: that, giant, strength · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Do | obj |
| 4 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 2 Do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | that | likewise property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
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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