Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 47

The tailor sprang nimbly down, seized the tree with both arms as if he had been carrying it, and said to the giant: ‘You are such a great fellow, and yet cannot even carry the tree!’

Who acts: tailor, You · What happens: spring, seize, carry, say, be, not carry · To what, where: tree, giant, great fellow · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 sprang	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 arms	det
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seized	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 carrying	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 carrying	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carrying	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 carrying	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 carrying	aux
18	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 seized	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 carrying	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 giant	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 giant	det
25	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 fellow	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 fellow	punct
28	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 fellow	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 fellow	cop
30	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	33 fellow	det:predet
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 fellow	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fellow	amod
33	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 carry	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 carry	cc
36	yet	yet	ADV	_	40 carry	advmod
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 carry	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 carry	advmod
39	even	even	ADV	_	40 carry	advmod
40	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 fellow	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 tree	det
42	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 carry	obj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 fellow	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the tailor				down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past	the tailor not said here	the tree			with both arms	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	carry	past · perfect · progressive	tailor	tree				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the tailor not said here		the giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to giant=Recipient
5	is a	present	You	such great fellow				tree rules
6	not carry	can	You not said here	the tree		yet		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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