Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 52
‘There is no lack of strength,’ answered the little tailor.
Who acts: lack · What happens: be, answer, lack · To what, where: little tailor, strength · 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 (lack), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 lack | det |
| 5 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 strength | case |
| 7 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lack | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tailor | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tailor | amod |
| 13 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no lack of strength | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the little tailor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lack | strength | nom lack «state 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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