Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 49

But the little tailor was much too weak to hold the tree, and when the giant let it go, it sprang back again, and the tailor was tossed into the air with it.

Who acts: little tailor, tree · What happens: be, hold, let, go, spring back, toss · To what, where: tree, tailor, air

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 (little tailor, tree), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 weak	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tailor	amod
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 weak	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weak	cop
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 too	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 weak	advmod
8	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hold	mark
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 weak	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 let	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 let	advcl
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 weak	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sprang	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sprang	nsubj
23	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weak	parataxis
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 sprang	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 sprang	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 tossed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tossed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tailor	det
29	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tossed	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tossed	aux:pass
31	tossed	toss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sprang	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 air	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 air	det
34	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tossed	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 air	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 weak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little tailor				weak property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	the little tailor not said here	the tree				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	let	infinitive		tree				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	tree not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spring back	past	tree			again		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	toss	past · passive		the tailor	the air with tree			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient into air=Recipient

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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