Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 4
This rang pleasantly in the tailor’s ears; he stretched his delicate head out of the window, and called: ‘Come up here, dear woman; here you will get rid of your goods.’
Who acts: This, tailor, you · What happens: ring, stretch, call, come up, get · To what, where: ears, delicate head, window · 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 (This, tailor, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 rang | nsubj |
| 2 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 2 rang | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ears | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tailor | det |
| 6 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 tailor | case |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rang | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stretched | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stretched | nsubj |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rang | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | amod |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 called | cc |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rang | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Come | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Come | punct |
| 24 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 called | xcomp |
| 25 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 Come | advmod |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 Come | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 woman | punct |
| 28 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 woman | amod |
| 29 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Come | vocative |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 get | punct |
| 31 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 get | advmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 get | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 get | aux |
| 34 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rang | parataxis |
| 35 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 get | xcomp |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 goods | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 goods | nmod:poss |
| 38 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 35 rid | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 get | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | This | the tailor's ears | pleasantly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | |||
| 2 | stretch | past | tailor | tailor's delicate head | the window | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | call | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | come up | infinitive | here | dear woman vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | future | you | here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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