Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 66
The little tailor went onwards, always following his own pointed nose.
Who acts: little tailor · What happens: go, follow · To what, where: own pointed nose
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 (little 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 | 3 tailor | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tailor | amod |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | onwards | onwards | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 following | punct |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 following | advmod |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nose | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nose | amod |
| 11 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nose | amod |
| 12 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 following | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the little tailor | onwards property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the little tailor not said here | tailor's own pointed nose | always property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |
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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