Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 5
The woman came up the three steps to the tailor with her heavy basket, and he made her unpack all the pots for him.
Who acts: woman, tailor · What happens: come up, make, unpack · To what, where: three steps, woman, pots
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 (woman, tailor), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 came | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 steps | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 steps | nummod |
| 7 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tailor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tailor | det |
| 10 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steps | nmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 basket | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 basket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 basket | amod |
| 14 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tailor | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | unpack | unpack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | xcomp |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 pots | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pots | det |
| 23 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 unpack | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pots | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the woman | the three steps | to the tailor with woman's heavy basket | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | tailor | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | unpack | infinitive | woman not said here | all pots | for tailor | 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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