Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 7
The woman who had hoped to find a good sale, gave him what he desired, but went away quite angry and grumbling.
Who acts: woman, tailor · What happens: hope, find, give, desire, go away, grumble · To what, where: good sale, tailor
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 (woman, 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 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 hoped | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hoped | aux |
| 5 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 woman | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hoped | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sale | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sale | amod |
| 10 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 woman | punct |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 desired | nsubj |
| 16 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gave | parataxis |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 angry | advmod |
| 22 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 went | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grumbling | cc |
| 24 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 went | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | past · perfect | the woman | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | a good sale | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sale=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the woman | tailor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desire | past | tailor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | go away | past | angry, away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | grumble speech: other | gerund | vn complain-37.8 «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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