Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 45

The giant took the trunk on his shoulder, but the tailor seated himself on a branch, and the giant, who could not look round, had to carry away the whole tree, and the little tailor into the bargain: he behind, was quite merry and happy, and whistled the song: ‘Three tailors rode forth from the gate,’ as if carrying the tree were child’s play.

Who acts: giant, tailor, Three tailors · What happens: take, seat, not look round, have, carry away, be · To what, where: trunk, shoulder, tailor, branch, whole tree, song

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, tailor, Three tailors), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trunk	det
5	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shoulder	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulder	nmod:poss
8	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seated	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 seated	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tailor	det
12	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seated	nsubj
13	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 seated	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 branch	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 branch	det
17	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seated	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 giant	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 giant	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 giant	det
21	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 look	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 look	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 look	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 look	advmod
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 giant	conj
27	round	round	ADV	_	26 look	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 carry	mark
31	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	away	away	ADP	_	31 carry	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tree	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tree	amod
35	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carry	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tailor	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tailor	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tailor	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tailor	amod
40	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 bargain	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bargain	det
43	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 behind	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 behind	nsubj
46	behind	behind	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 merry	punct
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 merry	cop
49	quite	quite	ADV	_	50 merry	advmod
50	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	parataxis
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 happy	cc
52	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 merry	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 whistled	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 whistled	cc
55	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 song	det
57	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 whistled	obj
58	:	:	PUNCT	_	62 rode	punct
59	‘	'	PUNCT	_	62 rode	punct
60	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	61 tailors	nummod
61	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 rode	nsubj
62	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
63	forth	forth	ADV	_	62 rode	advmod
64	from	from	ADP	_	66 gate	case
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 gate	det
66	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 rode	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 rode	punct
68	’	'	PUNCT	_	62 rode	punct
69	as	as	SCONJ	_	71 carrying	mark
70	if	if	SCONJ	_	71 carrying	mark
71	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	62 rode	advcl
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 tree	det
73	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 carrying	obj
74	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	77 play	cop
75	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 play	nmod:poss
76	’s	's	PART	_	75 child	case
77	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 carrying	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the giant	the trunk	Readily's shoulder	into the bargain; behind property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trunk=Theme on shoulder=Destination
2	seat	past	the tailor	tailor	a branch		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
3	not look round	could				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	past	the giant not said here				tree rules
5	carry away	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	the whole tree			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
6	is	past				merry property	tree rules
7	be						tree rules
8	whistle	past	the giant not said here	the song			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic
9	ride	past	Three tailors		the gate	forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from gate=Trajectory
10	carry	gerund	Three tailors not said here	the tree			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
11	is a	past		child's play			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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