Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 63
When it was midnight, and the giant thought that the little tailor was lying in a sound sleep, he got up, took a great iron bar, cut through the bed with one blow, and thought he had finished off the grasshopper for good.
Who acts: bed, giant, little tailor, tailor · What happens: be, think, lie, get up, take, cut · To what, where: midnight, sound sleep, great iron bar, grasshopper · 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 (bed, giant, little tailor, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 midnight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 midnight | cop |
| 4 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 lying | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tailor | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tailor | amod |
| 13 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lying | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lying | aux |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sleep | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sleep | det |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sleep | compound |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lying | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | parataxis |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 got | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 got | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bar | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bar | amod |
| 28 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bar | compound |
| 29 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cut | punct |
| 31 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 bar | acl |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 bed | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bed | det |
| 34 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cut | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 blow | case |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 blow | nummod |
| 37 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cut | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 thought | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 thought | cc |
| 40 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | conj |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 finished | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 finished | aux |
| 43 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 thought | ccomp |
| 44 | off | off | ADP | _ | 46 grasshopper | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 grasshopper | det |
| 46 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 finished | obl |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 good | case |
| 48 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 finished | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bed | midnight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the giant | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | the little tailor | a sound sleep | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sleep=Location | ||||
| 4 | get up | past | tailor | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | take | past | tailor not said here | a great iron bar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cut | participle | a great iron bar not said here | with one blow; through the bed | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through bed=Patient | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | the giant not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | finish off | past · perfect | tailor | the grasshopper | for good | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector grasshopper=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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