Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 74
‘For this very reason have I come here,’ the tailor replied, ‘I am ready to enter the king’s service.’
Who acts: I, king · What happens: come, reply, be, enter, service · To what, where: tailor, service
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 (I, king), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 reason | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 reason | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 reason | advmod |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tailor | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 13 tailor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tailor | det |
| 13 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tailor | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ready | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 ready | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ready | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ready | cop |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tailor | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 enter | mark |
| 21 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ready | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 service | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 king | case |
| 25 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 enter | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | here | for this reason; ' the tailor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the tailor not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enter | to-infinitive | I not said here | the king's service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | ||||
| 5 | service | the king | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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