Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 53
‘Do you think that could be anything to a man who has struck down seven at one blow?
Who acts: you, that · What happens: think, be, strike down · To what, where: anything, seven, one blow · 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 (you, that), 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 | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 anything | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 anything | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 anything | cop |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anything | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 struck | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 struck | aux |
| 14 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 anything | acl:relcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 struck | compound:prt |
| 16 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 struck | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 blow | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 blow | nummod |
| 19 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struck | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | could | that | anything | to a man | tree rules | |||
| 3 | strike down | present · perfect | seven | one blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=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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