Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 38

Then the giant picked up a stone and threw it so high that the eye could scarcely follow it.

Who acts: giant, eye · What happens: pick up, throw, follow · To what, where: stone, giant

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, eye), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 picked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 picked	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threw	cc
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 threw	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 high	advmod
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 threw	xcomp
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 follow	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eye	det
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 follow	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 follow	aux
17	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	18 follow	advmod
18	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 high	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 follow	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	participle	the giant	a stone	then		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
2	throw	past	the giant not said here	giant		high property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	follow	could	the eye	giant		scarcely property	vn chase-51.6 «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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