Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 75
He was therefore honourably received, and a special dwelling was assigned him.
Who acts: tailor · What happens: be, assign · To what, where: special dwelling
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 received | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | cop |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 received | advmod |
| 4 | honourably | honourably | ADV | _ | 5 received | advmod |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 assigned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 assigned | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dwelling | det |
| 9 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dwelling | amod |
| 10 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assigned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 assigned | aux:pass |
| 12 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 received | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 assigned | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tailor | honourably, receive, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assign | past · passive | a special dwelling | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=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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