Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 62
The bed, however, was too big for the little tailor; he did not lie down in it, but crept into a corner.
Who acts: bed, tailor · What happens: be, not lie down, creep · To what, where: bed, corner
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 (bed, tailor), 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 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 big | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bed | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 big | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 big | advmod |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 tailor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tailor | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tailor | amod |
| 12 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 big | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lie | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lie | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lie | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 lie | advmod |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 big | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 lie | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lie | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 crept | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 crept | cc |
| 23 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lie | conj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 corner | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 corner | det |
| 26 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 crept | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bed | for the little tailor; big, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not lie down | past · do-support | tailor | bed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | tailor not said here | a corner | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination |
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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