Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 56

The giant made the attempt but he could not get over the tree, and remained hanging in the branches, so that in this also the tailor kept the upper hand.

Who acts: giant, Jump · What happens: make, not get, remain, hang, keep · To what, where: attempt, tree, branches, upper hand

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 (giant, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 attempt	det
5	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 get	advmod
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	conj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remained	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 remained	cc
16	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
17	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 remained	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 branches	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 branches	det
20	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hanging	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 kept	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 tailor	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 tailor	nsubj
26	also	also	ADV	_	28 tailor	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tailor	det
28	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	obl
29	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 remained	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hand	det
31	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hand	amod
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 kept	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	the giant	the attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product
2	not get	could	Jump		the tree		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over tree=Destination
3	remain	past					tree rules
4	hang	gerund			the branches		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location
5	keep	past		the upper hand		in the tailor	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in tailor=Location

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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