Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 44

‘Readily,’ answered the little man; ‘take you the trunk on your shoulders, and I will raise up the branches and twigs; after all, they are the heaviest.’

Who acts: Readily, I, branches · What happens: answer, take, raise up, be · To what, where: little man, you, shoulders, branches · 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 (Readily, I, branches), 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 Readily	punct
2	Readily	readily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Readily	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Readily	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 take	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trunk	det
14	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 shoulders	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoulders	nmod:poss
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 take	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 raise	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 raise	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 raise	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 raise	aux
22	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 take	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 raise	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 branches	det
25	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 raise	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 twigs	cc
27	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 branches	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 heaviest	punct
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 heaviest	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 all	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 heaviest	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 heaviest	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 heaviest	det
35	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 raise	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Readily		the little man				tree rules
2	take	infinitive		you		your shoulders			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme trunk=Destination
3	raise up	future	I	the branches and twigs					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
4	is	present	branches = branch				after all	heavy property	tree rules

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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