Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 46

The giant, after he had dragged the heavy burden part of the way, could go no further, and cried: ‘Hark you, I shall have to let the tree fall!’

Who acts: tailor, I · What happens: drag, go, cry, have, let · To what, where: heavy burden part, Hark, tree fall

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 (tailor, I), 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cried	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dragged	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 dragged	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dragged	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dragged	aux
7	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 giant	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 part	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 part	amod
10	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	compound
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dragged	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 dragged	conj
18	no	no	ADV	_	19 further	advmod
19	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 go	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cried	cc
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Hark	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Hark	punct
25	Hark	Hark	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 cried	obl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 Hark	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cried	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 let	mark
32	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 have	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fall	det
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fall	compound
35	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 let	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drag	past · perfect	tailor	the heavy burden part of the way		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	go	could	tailor not said here		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past		Hark		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	shall	I			tree rules
5	let	to-infinitive	I not said here	the tree fall		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=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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