Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 48

They went on together, and as they passed a cherry-tree, the giant laid hold of the top of the tree where the ripest fruit was hanging, bent it down, gave it into the tailor’s hand, and bade him eat.

Who acts: arms, ripest fruit · What happens: go, pass, hang, bend down, give, eat · To what, where: cherry tree, tree, hand, bade, top

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 (arms, ripest fruit), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 together	case
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 went	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 passed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 passed	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 passed	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
11	cherry	cherry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cherry	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hold	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hold	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hold	amod
17	laid	laid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hold	amod
18	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 top	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 top	det
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 top	nmod
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 hanging	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fruit	det
27	ripest	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 fruit	amod
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hanging	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hanging	aux
30	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 tree	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bent	punct
32	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bent	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 bent	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gave	punct
36	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 gave	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	42 hand	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tailor	det
40	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hand	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 tailor	case
42	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gave	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 eat	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 eat	cc
45	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 eat	obl
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 bade	obj
47	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	arms = arm			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on together=Location
2	pass	past	arms = arm	a cherry tree		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory
3	hang	past · progressive	the ripest fruit			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bend down	past	arms = arm not said here	tree		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent it=Material
5	give	past	arms = arm not said here	tree	the tailor's hand	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	eat	present		bade		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	hold			the top of the tree		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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