Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 50
When he had fallen down again without injury, the giant said: ‘What is this?
Who acts: tailor, giant · What happens: fall down, say, be · To what, where: this · 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, giant), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 fallen | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fallen | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fallen | aux |
| 4 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 fallen | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 fallen | advmod |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 injury | case |
| 8 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fallen | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 this | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 this | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 this | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 this | cop |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 said | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past · perfect | tailor | again | without injury | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | 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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