Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 55
Jump as I did, if you can do it.’
Who acts: I, Jump · What happens: do · To what, where: seven
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 (I, Jump), 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 | Jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | can | Jump | seven | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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