Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 76
The soldiers, however, were set against the little tailor, and wished him a thousand miles away.
What happens: set, wish · To what, where: soldiers, 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soldiers | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | aux:pass |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 tailor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tailor | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tailor | amod |
| 11 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wished | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wished | cc |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wished | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thousand | det |
| 17 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 miles | nummod |
| 18 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 away | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 wished | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | the soldiers | against the little tailor; however property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against tailor=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | tailor | away property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 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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