Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 42

‘You can certainly throw,’ said the giant, ‘but now we will see if you are able to carry anything properly.’

Who acts: You, we · What happens: throw, say, see, be, carry · To what, where: giant, anything · 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, we), 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	_	5 throw	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 throw	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 throw	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 throw	advmod
5	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 throw	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 throw	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 see	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 able	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 able	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 see	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 carry	mark
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 carry	obj
25	properly	properly	ADV	_	23 carry	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw	can	You			certainly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		the giant			tree rules
3	see	future	we		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			able property	tree rules
5	carry	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything		properly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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