Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 35
‘Is that all?’ said the tailor, ‘that is child’s play with us!’ and put his hand into his pocket, brought out the soft cheese, and pressed it until the liquid ran out of it.
Who acts: that, pocket, liquid · What happens: be, put, bring out, press, run · To what, where: play, hand, pocket, soft cheese · 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 (that, pocket, liquid), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tailor | det |
| 9 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ‘ | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tailor | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 play | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 play | cop |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 play | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 child | case |
| 16 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tailor | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 play | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 play | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 tailor | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 pocket | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 27 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl | ||
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 pocket | acl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 brought | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cheese | det |
| 32 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cheese | amod |
| 33 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pressed | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 pressed | cc |
| 36 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pressed | obj |
| 38 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 41 ran | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 liquid | det |
| 40 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ran | nsubj |
| 41 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 pressed | advcl |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 ran | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | present | say property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | child's play | with us | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put | past | tailor's hand | tailor's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 4 | bring out | participle | tailor's pocket not said here | the soft cheese | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cheese=Patient | ||||
| 5 | press | past | hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | run | past | the liquid | hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out it=Trajectory |
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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