Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 65
The giants were terrified, they were afraid that he would strike them all dead, and ran away in a great hurry.
Who acts: giants, huntsmen, tailor · What happens: be, strike, run away · To what, where: huntsmen, great hurry
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 (giants, huntsmen, 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 giants | det |
| 2 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 terrified | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | cop |
| 4 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | cop |
| 8 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 terrified | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 strike | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 strike | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 strike | aux |
| 12 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 afraid | ccomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 strike | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 dead | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 strike | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ran | cc |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 terrified | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hurry | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hurry | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hurry | amod |
| 23 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the giants | terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | huntsmen = huntsman | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | strike | would | tailor | huntsmen = huntsman | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent they=Patient dead=Result | ||||
| 4 | run away | past | the giants not said here | a great hurry | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory |
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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