Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 6

He inspected each one, lifted it up, put his nose to it, and at length said: ‘The jam seems to me to be good, so weigh me out four ounces, dear woman, and if it is a quarter of a pound that is of no consequence.’

Who acts: tailor, jam, head, that · What happens: inspect, lift up, put, say, seem, be · To what, where: one, head, nose, length, me, quarter · 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, jam, head, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 inspected	nsubj
2	inspected	inspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inspected	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lifted	punct
6	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 inspected	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lifted	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 lifted	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lifted	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nose	nmod:poss
12	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 inspected	parataxis
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 seems	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 seems	punct
22	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 jam	det
23	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seems	nsubj
24	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 seems	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	29 good	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 good	cop
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 seems	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 weigh	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 weigh	advmod
32	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seems	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 weigh	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	32 weigh	compound:prt
35	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 ounces	nummod
36	ounces	ounce	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 weigh	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 woman	punct
38	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 woman	amod
39	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ounces	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 quarter	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 quarter	cc
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 quarter	mark
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 quarter	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 quarter	cop
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 quarter	det
46	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 inspected	parataxis
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 pound	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 pound	det
49	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 quarter	nmod
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 consequence	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 consequence	cop
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 consequence	case
53	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	54 consequence	det
54	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 quarter	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 consequence	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	54 consequence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	inspect	past	tailor	each one				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	lift up	past	tailor not said here	head				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	put	infinitive	tailor not said here	tailor's nose	head			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nose=Goal
4	say speech: assert	past				length		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	seem	present	the jam		me			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	the jam not said here				good property	tree rules
7	weigh out	infinitive	the jam not said here	me				tree rules
8	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	head	a quarter and no consequence			of a pound	tree rules
9	is	present	that				of no consequence	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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