Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 68

Whilst he lay there, the people came and inspected him on all sides, and read on his girdle: ‘Seven at one stroke.’

Who acts: tailor, people, you · What happens: lie, come, inspect, read · To what, where: tailor, sides, girdle

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, people, you), 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	Whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	3 lay	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 read	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lay	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 inspected	cc
10	inspected	inspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 inspected	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 sides	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 sides	det
14	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 inspected	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 read	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 read	cc
17	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 girdle	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 girdle	nmod:poss
20	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 read	obl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Seven	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Seven	punct
23	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 read	ccomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 stroke	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 stroke	nummod
26	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Seven	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 read	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lie	past	tailor		there	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the people			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	inspect	past	the people not said here	tailor	all sides	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	read	imperative	you not said here		tailor's girdle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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